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Answer by FluidCode for The Frozen Star - Can U-238 reactors be used as a...

Uranium 238 is FertilePeople still do not consider that modern nuclear technologies are very primitive. Current fission reactors extract only a tiny percentage of the energy available from the nuclear...

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Non-fissile decay of radioactives (including uranium and thorium in natural isotope ratios) is believed to be the primary source of internal heat for rocky planets like Earth (or, presumably, Taurus,...

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From Wikipedia about UraniumAround 99.284% of natural uranium's mass is uranium-238, which has a half-life of 4.468 billion years.The above means that your decay heat will practically be stable on the...

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I was watching this Minecraft Animation video based on a scientific concept about what would happen if we froze the Sun - What happens if we Freeze The Sun- Portrayed by Minecraft.In this video, some...

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