You can boost it by hollowing out the middle and filling it with tritium, but plutonium is dense, so 80 tons will probably fit in the firebox just fine.
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zarathustra0@lemmy.world 5 hours agoSo I need 80 tons of it in my firebox?
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Well, you’d then have another problem. Unlike coal/wood/oil fuel, you can’t turn off radioactive decay.
You’d have megawatts (gigawatts?) of thermal energy boiling off all your water pretty quickly, and likely eventually melting down your steam engine firebox, and it would be that hot for decades!