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i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…

or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person

It does if you practice cannibalism!

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- TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You enrich uranium through centrifugation.
  
  I enrich uranium through bioaccumulation.
  
  We are not the same.
  
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  - anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    AARRRRG, that one hurt.
    Enriching is about isotopes of the same element.
    You know elements? The things that have the same chemical property?
    
    The whole challenge of enrichment is that you want to separate atoms by mass alone, and the difference is <2%. Nobody would build many expensive centrifuges if there was another way.
    
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    TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.
    
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  - faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Do you call people “smoothskin”?
    
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