What’s heavy water again

On my phone shite at typing on my phone

21 inch 1600x900

not that the plants want to spend the money to upgrade or anything

yeesh

In a cocktail bar in Edinburgh.

We should have a iq test and discord usage competency test jesuz

Well light water works fine too

it does

@RatKing water with deutanium instead of hydrogen

I mean in general though

It's an isotope of hydrogen

lots of better and safer designs for reactors

Heavy water is quite expensive

but none used

Well

of course, it's more used in experimentation

I think uranium is kinda on the way out

thorium is looking promising

lower power of course

Thorium still faces the problem of waste and giant engineering hurdles

less so with waste but yea lots of hurdles

You’re basically creating Uranium 233 out of Thorium 232 to then burn as fuel

Vote soup

mm

Not really THAT much safer

of course

Vote Karpo and Soup.

still safer, just marginally. It's kinda up in the air

The reactor runs at lower pressures but that’s about it

though I believe the systems are just using small amounts of uranium as a kind of starter for the reactor

correct me if I'm wrong

Uranium is about as rare as platinum so the sooner we get away from it the better

yup

most of the other elements we could use are even rarer

thorium seems to be one of the only others

at least that's more abundant

Fission just isn’t sustainable no matter how you cut it

Even if we used thorium we’re still burning metal

most power isn't at this point

we're either burning coal oil or metal