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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles are coming your way. better put it under water and attach a turbine to the vessel, and a generator to the shaft

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn't need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Well, either you can turn it off or you're about a microsecond away from being vaporized.

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