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Re: DIY Nuclear Reactors After the End
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You're a little better off in the near term post apocalypse, since there are still chunks of artificially enriched or produced isotopes around - if you don't care about killing your workers you can pull spent fuel rods out of their storage pools and stick them in smaller volumes of water that will get much hotter than the pools do - the stuff sitting around in pools at most nuclear plants will probably be producing several percent of the heat output of the operating plant for decades, but even high level nuclear waste has quite a limited supply, and it's too "short-lived" a resource for more science-fantasy settings, a century or two on and even it's too dilute to be very useful.
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11-11-2018, 02:49 PM | #12 | |
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Obviously, yes, sourcing the fuel for that is unlikely to be feasible in ATE contexts unless you're burning through a pre-fall stockpile of refined material.
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11-11-2018, 03:12 PM | #13 | |
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11-11-2018, 03:20 PM | #14 | |
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11-11-2018, 03:36 PM | #15 |
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Re: DIY Nuclear Reactors After the End
There are alternatives.
IIRC a Nuclear Reactor is basically a kettle to heat water to produce steam to turn a vane connected to a generator. A generator is more or less magnets and wires to generator electrical current that can be utilised by a motor or light bulbs etc. Wind and Water power would more likely be easier methods of generating power. Of course depending on the size of the generator would depend on the power required to turn it to produce power. This may then return the question back to the nuclear option. |
11-11-2018, 03:58 PM | #16 | |
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Obviously that isn't a perfectly reliable procedure, but it's something.
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11-11-2018, 04:10 PM | #17 |
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Re: DIY Nuclear Reactors After the End
I have seen proposals for what's basically artificial geothermal energy by just dumping a large amount of radioactives (probably nuclear waste) down a hole large and deep enough to be well insulated (for example, dig a hole and drop a nuke down it), letting it heat up, and running water pipes through it. This is probably something that you could do AtE if you happened to have a large amount of radioactive waste (say, Yucca Mountain ever actually gets completed) though it's certainly a temporary thing (if you have a large enough blob, it will remain hot considerably longer than the high level wastes, but not forever).
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11-11-2018, 04:22 PM | #18 | |
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11-11-2018, 08:31 PM | #19 |
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Re: DIY Nuclear Reactors After the End
Does it have to be made after the end? Can a settlement stumble upon a hidden, automated, underground reactor from before the end of the world that’s still running on autopilot and decide to use it as their own?
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11-11-2018, 08:55 PM | #20 |
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Re: DIY Nuclear Reactors After the End
Not really, since as a response it doesn't address environmental concerns in any way. And might not even be true, depending on how much warming constitutes a problem.
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