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[Anonymous No.1730108]

Say I had reliable access to assembled nuclear fuel rod bundles. The bundles look like pic related and contain partially enriched uranium. Could I build a nuclear reactor in my garage?

[Anonymous No.1730113]

>>1730108
You'll shoot your eye out. With neutrons....

[Anonymous No.1730121]

Youd probably just irradiate yourself and your neighbors

[Anonymous No.1730136]

>>1730108
If you have to ask this question, then no. Go get some welding rods and play with a LFTR. At least you'll only harm yourself and not the neighborhood.

[Anonymous No.1730177]

[Anonymous No.1730198]

>>1730108
You would need a large property to do it without irradiating yoursel too much, but yeah. Turning the heat into electricity is another story, but you probably could buy some steam generator kinda thing.
>>1730136
>radioactive lava leaking in your basement
>not turning your neighborhood into Chernobyl

[Anonymous No.1730208]

>>1730198
You didn't see any liquid fluoride on the ground BECAUSE IT ISN'T THERE!

[Anonymous No.1730209]

>>1730108
No.
Even the smallest nuclear reactors on submarines would take up the equivalent space of several garages.
And submarines have the advantage of being in water. A reactor on land will need thousands of gallons of water and cooling towers.
Unless you live on a farm and have a large quonset to work with, you wouldn't have the space to.
Even if you did, it would require constant maintenance and someone to operate and monitor it 24 hours a day. Plus dealing with spent fuel is expensive and dangerous.

[Anonymous No.1730222]

>>1730108
>>1730121
This. You'd kill yourself and everyone in a 5 mile radius before you got it working.

[Anonymous No.1730236]

>>1730108

Yes. You could build a nuclear reactor in your garage if you had access to assembled fuel bundles, probably. Your best bet would be to try to assembly a pool type reactor, which genuinely wouldn't be too hard to do. As long as you kept it to extremely low power, it wouldn't even be particularly unsafe.

If you wanted to actually generate power, then you'd have a lot of other issues that would be hard to overcome in your garage. In order to generate meaningful useful power, you'd need to get temperatures up pretty high, and then you'd start needing a lot of equipment to handle high pressures. I don't think you could do this.

[Anonymous No.1730238]

you could easily built a research nuclear reactor
if the fuel is enriched enough, chain reaction will start just by putting it water
pic related this thing is like 50cm^3

[Anonymous No.1730246]

>>1730108
Going for that Eagle Scout badge I see

[Anonymous No.1730254]

>>1730108
Kid made a nuclear reactor in his garage with americium out of smoke detectors, so ya.

[Anonymous No.1730257]

>>1730108
CANDU fuel is useless without about 100,000 litres of heavy water.

[Anonymous No.1730258]

>>1730254
>>1730246
>>1730177
He build a neutron source, not a nuclear reactor

[Anonymous No.1730274]

>>1730209
not sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBcp3nJlFQ

[Anonymous No.1730299]

>>1730257
candu use natural uranium, op claim enriched

[Anonymous No.1730313]

>>1730246
>mfw I was the only one in my troop that got the Nuclear Science merit badge
I put that fucker front row on my sash.

[Anonymous No.1730320]

>>1730108
Lmao totally, but why stop there? Why not build a interplanetary space ship powered with nuclear reactors to be the first to Mars? It'd probably cost you less, and since you're clearly so knowledgeable, it shouldn't be a problem at all and will pay off way sooner

[Anonymous No.1730334]

>>1730209
How much water could I draw from my municipality before they start asking questions? Naturally the electricity you generate would pay for the water bill, no?

[Anonymous No.1730361]

>>1730238
This. OP needs to tell us how activated his almonds are.