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Nice try, ChatGPT's evil twin. U-238 is fissionable according to this https://books.google.de/books?id=b5OsewV7smEC&pg=PA473&lpg=PA473&focus=viewport https://b
by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Nice try, ChatGPT's evil twin. U-238 is fissionable according to this
https://books.google.de/books?id=b5OsewV7smEC&pg=PA473&lpg=PA473&focus=viewport https://books.google.de/books?id=b5OsewV7smEC&pg=PA473&lpg=P...
"Such reactions produce fast neutrons which cause fission in uranium-238, which is not fissile by slower neutrons below energies of 1MeV."
- akiselev 4y agoNitpick: fast neutrons don't cause fission in uranium-238, they cause it to transmute into uranium-239 [1] which is a much less stable isotope with a half life of less than 30 minutes before it decays into neptunium-239. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_uranium#Uranium-239 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_uranium#Uranium-23...