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
Depends on the amount of compression you’re trying to achieve, the water’s temperature, and your definition of “easy”. Near freezing, ice is compressible. Because the increased pressure causes the freezing point to rise, which causes it to melt. And liquid water takes up less space than ice.
this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn't need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off
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
From what I remember, the water that is near the fissile material is in its own closed loop tank and has heat exchangers that transfer heat to another water loop that goes to the turbines.
In a pressurized water reactor, yes. In boiling water reactor, steam is formed in the reactor vessel and is sent directly to the turbines. While in operation, the turbine area is too radioactive for human presence. Fortunately, the radioactive byproducts carried in the steam are all very short lived, so it only takes a few minutes cool off.
Fun fact: hang around a strong enough radioactive source and you get the metallic taste WITHOUT even having to touch it. You just get the taste for free!
Lol it looks like that because it's glowing from heat (probably heat it is producing through radioactivity) it looks like pretty much any metal, just like uranium. Uranium compounds are super pretty though, plutonium probably too if anyone was nuts enough to make dyes with it.
Pu 239 which is the kind that we use the most since it’s the most fissile has a half-life of around 25k years and alpha decays so its very unlikely that it is heat from radioactivity. It may be heat from forging.
Unfortunately, if one were to invest a single gram of plutonium, not only are you ill equipped to actually properly harness even a small percentage of the heat energy it will produce, it also qualifies as a heavy metal, so there is every probability that whatever you do actually ingest before the chunk of plutonium exits your rear end will end up in your bones, thereby irradiating you further than the original gram of plutonium irradiated you as it passed through your digestive tract, mostly unobstructed, provided one doesn't have a previous bowel obstruction.
All of that is to say that it probably tastes spicy metallic. Especially if you have fillings in your mouth. It's energetic enough to give a similar sensation in your teeth that a piece of aluminum foil does when it touches your fillings.
Edit: leaving because funny, but what I intended to comment as I fell asleep was “oh look, tiny elephant feet!” in reference to the nickname given the big melty version
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expatriado@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 298d
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
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 56 pts · 298d
My shaft is where all my generation comes from. /s
expatriado@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 298d
more like the future generation
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
I typically get My Generation from The Who
dellish@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 298d
Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can't do?
janus2@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 298d
be easily compressed
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 298d
Amazing work.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 297d
Depends on the amount of compression you’re trying to achieve, the water’s temperature, and your definition of “easy”. Near freezing, ice is compressible. Because the increased pressure causes the freezing point to rise, which causes it to melt. And liquid water takes up less space than ice.
janus2@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 296d
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 9 pts · 298d
It can dissolve a lot of things too
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 298d
It can also decide what can and cannot breathe in it
JATtho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d
Be in one fraction at once. H2O consist of differerent quantum-mechanical portions: para-water and ortho-water.
And it only gets weirder.
::: spoiler paljastus No. Don't google para-hydrogen. You will break your brain. :::
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 297d
If you reverse a magnet it makes water more west
dellish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
I do hate it when my magnets develop a West pole.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 297d
Are you sure it’s not more south?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 297d
West by counterclockwise up actually
valek879@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 298d
fullsquare@awful.systems · 7 pts · 298d
this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn't need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off
gnutrino@programming.dev · 4 pts · 297d
Well, either you can turn it off or you're about a microsecond away from being vaporized.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 298d
Doesn’t this contaminate the water?
expatriado@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 298d
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 pts · 298d
It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself if i understand correctly
BussyCat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 297d
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 297d
From what I remember, the water that is near the fissile material is in its own closed loop tank and has heat exchangers that transfer heat to another water loop that goes to the turbines.
mercano@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d
In a pressurized water reactor, yes. In boiling water reactor, steam is formed in the reactor vessel and is sent directly to the turbines. While in operation, the turbine area is too radioactive for human presence. Fortunately, the radioactive byproducts carried in the steam are all very short lived, so it only takes a few minutes cool off.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social · 64 pts · 297d
People always talking about how extremely hot metal looks tasty.
I'm an amateur blacksmith. Glowing metal looks like pain.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 60 pts · 298d
People have tasted it, they all seem to claim accidentally, the key report is that it tastes 'metallic'.
dellish@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 298d
Fun fact: hang around a strong enough radioactive source and you get the metallic taste WITHOUT even having to touch it. You just get the taste for free!
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 29 pts · 298d
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 298d
Don't tell CrossFit people about radiogenic hemorrhage or they'll start fetishizing it.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 297d
Eat your heart out, Jimmy John's.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 297d
And jet fuel melts steel beams.
Y'all, it's fucking delicious. Like Simply Orange hate-fucked Tang and the baby was adopted by a loving lesbian couple, Starburst and Skittles. Smith.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 296d
Poetry
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 298d
🤯
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 38 pts · 297d
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 294d
Yes! This was my first thought! Forbidden Razzles!
Plurrbear@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 297d
Tell TRUMP and the administration to lick it and it will taste like a dreamsickles!!!! :)
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 297d
Tell him it tastes like Bill Clinton, if you know what I mean.
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 296d
You might have better luck if you tell them they taste like dicksickles
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 297d
They'll get dreamsickle cell anemia!!
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 297d
Lol it looks like that because it's glowing from heat (probably heat it is producing through radioactivity) it looks like pretty much any metal, just like uranium. Uranium compounds are super pretty though, plutonium probably too if anyone was nuts enough to make dyes with it.
BussyCat@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 297d
Pu 239 which is the kind that we use the most since it’s the most fissile has a half-life of around 25k years and alpha decays so its very unlikely that it is heat from radioactivity. It may be heat from forging.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
It is Plutonium-238.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 297d
Fun fact: there's enough calories in a single gram of plutonium to sustain a person for 10,000,000 years.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 28 pts · 297d
as does the same amount of any other substance, including for example yoghurt.
That number is just the E in E=mc²
If we are actually talking dietary calories, the number you see on foodstuff packaging, plutonium has 0.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 16 pts · 297d
you're saying it's perfect for my diet ?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 13 pts · 297d
The problem with only counting calories for health has never been more aptly highlighted!
ptu@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 297d
You would gain weight, but only temporarily
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 297d
It would certainly feed you for the rest of your life.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
Unfortunately, if one were to invest a single gram of plutonium, not only are you ill equipped to actually properly harness even a small percentage of the heat energy it will produce, it also qualifies as a heavy metal, so there is every probability that whatever you do actually ingest before the chunk of plutonium exits your rear end will end up in your bones, thereby irradiating you further than the original gram of plutonium irradiated you as it passed through your digestive tract, mostly unobstructed, provided one doesn't have a previous bowel obstruction.
All of that is to say that it probably tastes spicy metallic. Especially if you have fillings in your mouth. It's energetic enough to give a similar sensation in your teeth that a piece of aluminum foil does when it touches your fillings.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 297d
Oh; it will kill the fuck out of you. It's mainly emits alpha particles, but also beta and gamma.
Also, thanks to your typo, I'm thinking of investing in radiation.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d
Leaving it.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 297d
As you should.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 297d
It is orange flavored. It's "orange you glad you didn't put that in your mouth"
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 297d
I thought plutonium is just a metallic silver?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 297d
I think it's red hot
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 297d
orange
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 296d
I think it's red orange.
better?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 297d
Dammit this is giving me weird memories of that week I was radioactive
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 297d
UP AND AT THEM
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 297d
UP AN ATOM!
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 298d
The fillet on the top makes it look delectable.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 297d
I want to know what lifting it is like. Say just a beer can of volume. Depleted uranium is freaky dense!
Math may be off:
7kg
15.4lbs.
Freaky!
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 298d
Why would we never know? What’s a little sacrifice for science?
regedit@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 297d
At first I though it was a pic of two urinal cakes on a cast iron skillet.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 297d
Oh look, ti proseccos
Edit: leaving because funny, but what I intended to comment as I fell asleep was “oh look, tiny elephant feet!” in reference to the nickname given the big melty version
Sidhean@piefed.social · 3 pts · 297d
I still remember the time I dropped my phone on my sleeping face and got "m understop" instead if "I'm sleepy."
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 297d
I'll take a bite if you wanna
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 297d
That's not what Back to the Future taught me
Thief@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 297d
This could be a cool song title: ‘And the post said plutonium pucks, could taste like orange crush’.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 297d