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If there are plants (there is a patent and a paper describing this in some algae, IDK if it has been replicated or not...) that have preferences (kinetic isotop

by zkms 2y ago

If there are plants (there is a patent and a paper describing this in some algae, IDK if it has been replicated or not...) that have preferences (kinetic isotope effect!) for one isotope of uranium over the other you could technically have a uranium enrichment plant made from uranium enrichment...plants.

exe34 2y ago
Have a feeling this kind of idea is born secret
- WJW 2y ago
  It's not like you can just buy some uranium to experiment with in your home lab, so even if a normie had this idea they would probably not be able to test it in any way.
  - suoduandao3 2y ago
    I guess you missed it when everyone was leaving joke reviews on this product? https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews/B000796XXM https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews...
  - weberer 2y ago
    https://unitednuclear.com/uranium-ore-c-2_4/ https://unitednuclear.com/uranium-ore-c-2_4/
  - kvgr 2y ago
    I mean, go to Jachymov, plant some plants... success
  - kjkjadksj 2y ago
    Theres 4.5 billion tons of the stuff in seawater. Enough uranium to make 70 billion little boy bombs if my math is right, using an algae perhaps you’ve designed to accumulate uranium.
    - exe34 2y ago
      Reminds me of Marooned in realtime, where near the end of civilisation, individuals have the firepower of entire nation states of the past.
  - philipkglass 2y ago
    You actually can. Small quantities of natural or depleted uranium have no special nuclear regulations associated with them in the United States and can be shipped like other moderately toxic metals.
gilleain 2y ago
Possibly relevant: https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ - "Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation", Geochemical Perspectives Letters v27 "By following the fractionation of 233U, 235U, 236U and 238U during the enzymatic reduction of hexavalent U to tetravalent U by the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, we provide the first direct evidence of the nuclear field shift effect during biologically controlled kinetic isotope fractionation."

by zkms 2y ago

exe34 2y ago

Have a feeling this kind of idea is born secret

WJW 2y ago
It's not like you can just buy some uranium to experiment with in your home lab, so even if a normie had this idea they would probably not be able to test it in any way.
- suoduandao3 2y ago
  I guess you missed it when everyone was leaving joke reviews on this product? https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews/B000796XXM https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews...
- weberer 2y ago
  https://unitednuclear.com/uranium-ore-c-2_4/ https://unitednuclear.com/uranium-ore-c-2_4/
- kvgr 2y ago
  I mean, go to Jachymov, plant some plants... success
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  Theres 4.5 billion tons of the stuff in seawater. Enough uranium to make 70 billion little boy bombs if my math is right, using an algae perhaps you’ve designed to accumulate uranium.
  - exe34 2y ago
    Reminds me of Marooned in realtime, where near the end of civilisation, individuals have the firepower of entire nation states of the past.
- philipkglass 2y ago
  You actually can. Small quantities of natural or depleted uranium have no special nuclear regulations associated with them in the United States and can be shipped like other moderately toxic metals.

gilleain 2y ago

Possibly relevant: https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ - "Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation", Geochemical Perspectives Letters v27 "By following the fractionation of 233U, 235U, 236U and 238U during the enzymatic reduction of hexavalent U to tetravalent U by the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, we provide the first direct evidence of the nuclear field shift effect during biologically controlled kinetic isotope fractionation."