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Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared? Read t
by akiselev 4y ago
Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared?
Read the papers, they explain it all and characterize the tests.
- pfdietz 4y agoCivilization advances by trying huge numbers of things, most of which are horrible and bad. The rare winning technologies survive. Implying that nuclear lightbulbs for terrestrial generation would have been in this elite group of winning technologies is just ludicrous.
- akiselev 4y agoVaporizing nuclear fuel is how we enrich it. Uranium => Uranium Hexaflouride sublimed at 57C => Gaseous centrifuge to separate the isotope. We've been doing it since the Manhattan Project, since before nuclear power plants were even a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Centrifuge_techniques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Centrifuge_te...
- pfdietz 4y agoComparing uranium hexafluoride vapor at 57 C to incandescent vaporized uranium + fission products at 22,000 C. The materials problems with the latter are just a bit more severe!