Comment on Anon ponders modern magic
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe rare stone thing would be better for nuclear power. Find lots of rare stone, put it together in a huge pile, they get warm and cause mysterious diseases.
Comment on Anon ponders modern magic
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe rare stone thing would be better for nuclear power. Find lots of rare stone, put it together in a huge pile, they get warm and cause mysterious diseases.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uranium is actually pretty common, refining out the right isotope is the complicated part. Heck there were natural nuclear reactors in a couple places that generated power for a few million years.
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Isn’t uranium that’s pure enough naturally to cause a reaction on its own really rare? I’m referring to the Chicago Pile experiment. It was so simple that it could have been theoretically been built thousands of years ago which is crazy to think about.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not really. Every single shovel full of dirt has trace amounts. It’s just gathering enough into a pile. Like I said, nature did it on earth, before humans existed
fidodo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can’t get a reaction when it’s that trace though. It needs to be unusually pure to be able to stack a bunch of raw ore and get a reaction.