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By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (1)
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Msg. 16333 of 21975
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why is there no explosion during decay?

The short answer is here:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Fission/Fission3.shtml

There are two types of 'nuclear' reactions - fission and fusion.

Decay is ALWAYS a fission reaction. The wikipedia article on "nuclear fission" is just flat assed wrong when it attempts to call fission just ONE of a number of different types of decay processes.




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Re: Nuclear batteries
By: lkorrow
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Sat, 26 Nov 11 8:57 PM
Msg. 16330 of 21975

Monkey, granted, I don't know all the issues. What I said back then was it should be explored.

Maybe waste is equivalent, as you suggest, in which case it's a problem, but it seems one would need a product that quantifies how much would be required to run a car to determine whether nuclear waste from car batteries can be equated to the mountains of waste generated by power plants. My first thought was these batteries would last virtually forever, so it would be a smaller issue. And that they would figure out how to shield the stuff in autos such that it was safe and wouldn't end up being stolen for dirty bombs. Hmmm, they seemed to be known unknowns. Very Happy

p.s. ignorant question, why is there no explosion during decay?


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