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minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoHelium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoI need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
minus-squareSneezycat@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoIt’ll be really funny in 100 000 years.
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoIt’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom. So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second
Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron
I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
It’ll be really funny in 100 000 years.
It’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom.
So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second