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10735517 No.10735517 [Reply] [Original]

How can you build a simple pressurised water nuclear reactor in your backyard capable of producing 500W

>> No.10735525

>>10735517
Well the normal ones use oceans or at least lakes so my guess is you reasonably can’t.

>> No.10735527

>>10735525
There's a great big source of coolant in public water reservoirs

>> No.10735528

>>10735517
you cant
>>>/tv/

>> No.10735534

>>10735528
Elaborate on why not, or shut the fuck up

>> No.10735546 [DELETED] 

>>10735534
You can't, and even if you could, it would most certainly be illegal.

If you want "limitless" energy, which I presume you do because of the content of your image, I would suggest investing in solar power instead, quotes on limitless because the sun doesn't shine all day.

Maybe a wind turbine?

>> No.10735575

>>10735534
Because you cannot secure the nuclear fuel needed, or the amount of coolant needed, nor do know the first goddamn thing about power generation (let alone nuclear power generation). You're just a fucking /tv/ crossboarder, admit it.

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>>10735575
>nor do know the first goddamn thing about power generation (let alone nuclear power generation)
Stop projecting
Secondly I'm not a /tv/ poster

>> No.10735606

>>10735575
>you cannot secure the nuclear fuel needed
Will technically you could, it's just the enrichment that would be difficult, if you go with uranium. Theoretically you could get a different radioactive material and rely on simple decay heat instead of the heat from fission but at that point you're better off making it an RTG

>> No.10735614

>>10735534
Because if you could you wouldn't be asking for instructions.

>> No.10735615

>>10735614
That's retard logic
>I won't help you because of you actually needed my help you wouldn't ask for it

>> No.10735627 [DELETED] 

Glow niggers in their natural habitat

>> No.10735629

>>10735615
No it's not, I am not helping you because I can't either. You can't because well you literally can't, isn't that the problem?

>> No.10735638

>>10735588
He's right. If you were some type of nuke tech you would already understand the basics of nuclear power generation. The fact that you don't means you actually have no idea what you're talking about. Like from the very basics of it.

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>>10735627
I don't like racists

>> No.10735650

>>10735606
>RTG
How do I make one

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>> No.10735665

>>10735640
Why does the intelligence community suck so fucking hard at using memes?

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>>10735665
sweetie I'm not sure what you're so butthurt about.
If you can't take it feel free to leave.

>> No.10735670

>>10735638
Clearly you're jumping to conclusions from an incomplete dataset

>> No.10735675

>>10735650
You just put a radioactive hot thing next to a peltier plate with a great sink in the other side

>> No.10735680

>>10735675
Heat*
Fucking phoneposting

>> No.10735686

>>10735638
Don't they run on kryptonite?

>> No.10735713

>>10735517
you can't. You can't build a PWR without enriched uranium which you, for all intents and purposes, cannot obtain as a civilian. You could build something like chicago pile one or a CANDU reactor, but in either case you need literally TONS of uranium. You need TONS because that's what it takes to obtain a critical mass with natural uranium. The americium in smoke detectors is enriched to the extent that it's weapons grade, but in order to obtain a critical mass of americium you need all the smoke detectors in the world. Also the radioactive boy scout is a lie. Kid didn't come close to obtaining critical mass, everything became radioactive cause he put a bunch of radioactive shit together. You could make an alphavoltaic generator by putting a solar cell on to the americium from a smoke detector. You'll generate a small amount of power for less than hour, at which point the solar cell gets destroyed from alpha radiation.

We have this thread all the time and the answer's always the same. Since the jannies removed a post that said this, and surprisingly not any of the fucking schizo spam, you should invest in solar(from the sun) instead.

>> No.10735716

>>10735517
>>>/diy/
Read the sticky, boomer.

>> No.10735723

>>10735517
Also known as the "how do I manage to give me and my whole neighborhood brain cancer in two days" question

nice

>> No.10735742

>>10735713
Couldn't you just tune a big microwave oven to oscillate whatever radioactive shit you have, since mass is indistinguishable from acceleration?

>> No.10735763

>>10735713
>alphavoltaics
I remember hearing about betavoltaics, with tritium, but it got me thinking, why hasn't there been any research into Radioisotope Photoelectric Generators
I mean, tritium glows, and if you block the beta the only thing you're left with is xrays

>> No.10735797

>>10735669
not him but both those memes are awful and you should be ashamed of yourself

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>>10735797
cool story Sarah.

>> No.10735837

>>10735813
What was it like before they came out with tv? Did you really all sit around and look at the radio?

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>>10735837
no idea, ask your father. '
do you have one anon?

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>>10735763
>>why hasn't there been any research into Radioisotope Photoelectric Generators
there have. They're not very good. The advantage of beta and alphavoltaics is that you can achieve very high efficiency(~70-90%) at converting kinetic energy to electricity. Alphavoltaics have a lot of potential because they're potentially quite a decent amount of power available in alpha radiation. Only too much... I don't remember the exact number, but I think the record for alphavoltaic power is only 30 minutes before the alpha radiation completely renders the semiconductor inoperable.
There's this though:
https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/techbriefs/physical-sciences/98
no idea if it works.

>> No.10736098

>>10735837
I was hoping you'd write me >>10735842
back but I guess not.
Anyways ask your dad, if you have one, about radio.
Patiently awaiting your reply.

>> No.10736117

>>10736031
photovolactics >>>>>> alphavoltaics