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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 107 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles are coming your way. better put it under water and attach a turbine to the vessel, and a generator to the shaft

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn’t this contaminate the water?

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

my comment is oversimplified and partly joke, but nuclear power plants use mostly uranium fuel pellets, which are inserted in metal fuel rods and these into another metal container called fuel assemblies, before the are lowered into the water pool, so fuel and water don't touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself if i understand correctly

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20

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