I bought Nucleares and tried to go through the tutorial, but realized that it was getting me nowhere. so now I’m watching videos about how #nuclear reactors work and it’s actually really fucking fascinating?

like neutron moderators are super interesting, because it’s really counterintuitive that a neutron can be going “too fast” for #fission and a moderator has to actually slow it down

and the concept of a void coefficient is super interesting, because I guess water can be both a moderator and something that absorbs neutrons, and it depends on… something about the reactor? idek

and did you know that there was at least one natural fission reactor discovered? it had a negative void coefficient so it needed water in order to do the reaction, but it kept vaporizing its own groundwater, so it had to wait for more water to continue the reaction in a constant cycle

and I watched a super-interesting video about how Chernobyl happened and their control rod design was fucking insane btw. and look at their channel for even more videos, like videos about how a thorium reactor is able to create even cleaner fission energy than a uranium-235 reactor

I still don’t feel remotely ready to play Nucleares itself lol but I’m learning a lot and it surprises me how fascinating this subject is

Given sufficient electricity, we can make #Hydrogen in quantity without reforming Methane. The #Oxygen is a probably useful byproduct.
Given heat, pressure, and a catalyst, we can combine it with atmospheric #Nitrogen to make #Ammonia, a direct fertiliser, and starting point for Nitric acid and then #Nitrates. Among #AmmoniumNitrate 's uses is fertiliser for growng food.

I think we might build an Ammonia plant next to a #fission boiler, and use #heat as well as perhaps #electricity from it.

I like #fission #boiler #steam #power but if you start putting blocks of #solar panels down and connecting them to substations you can do it in many places and in sequence, and each 1000 kW you do is another 300 kWh per day. Add a #battery here and there, and you spread that through the whole day.

Fission takes a #decade, or perhaps 5 years (or 30) before a turbine spins a generator, and yes, all day and a GW but power next #winter is highly valuable.

And #wind, onshore...

#mwgic #2026 #Nuclear #Fission #Waste #NuclearWaste

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-tech-nuclear-waste-into-power

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