Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can’t do?
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expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles coming your way
dellish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
be easily compressed
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Amazing work.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Depends on the amount of compression and relative temperature. 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 2 months ago
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 months ago
It can dissolve a lot of things too
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It can also decide what can and cannot breathe in it
JATtho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Be in one fraction at once. H2O consist of differerent quantum-mechanical portions: para-water and ortho-water.
And it only gets weirder.
paljastus
No. Don’t google para-hydrogen. You will break your brain.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you reverse a magnet it makes water more west
dellish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do hate it when my magnets develop a West pole.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Are you sure it’s not more north?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
West by counterclockwise up actually
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
Well, either you can turn it off or you’re about a microsecond away from being vaporized.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doesn’t this contaminate the water?
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 inserted into the water pool, so fual and water dont touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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 months ago
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.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
My Shad is where all my generation comes from. /s
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
more like the future generation
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I typically get My Generation from The Who