• Billegh@lemmy.world
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    It is orange flavored. It’s “orange you glad you didn’t put that in your mouth”

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    13 hours ago

    At first I though it was a pic of two urinal cakes on a cast iron skillet.

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    Tell TRUMP and the administration to lick it and it will taste like a dreamsickles!!! :)

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    People always talking about how extremely hot metal looks tasty.

    I’m an amateur blacksmith. Glowing metal looks like pain.

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    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

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      Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can’t do?

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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        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

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

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    Fun fact: there’s enough calories in a single gram of plutonium to sustain a person for 10,000,000 years.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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!

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    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

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      I still remember the time I dropped my phone on my sleeping face and got “m understop” instead if “I’m sleepy.”