Nuclear power

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

What sort of rub did they use? Oak or Hickory for the smoke?

Seasalt with hypochlorite and burnt plastic.

[oil pan 4]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=63FQcG...ature=youtu.be

You can't use U233 to make plutonium for nuclear weapons but U233 is highly fissile. If you have a bunch of U233 you don't need plutonium.

This just be it's cool.
https://youtu.be/yGHuZnfnUtI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHuZn...ature=youtu.be

[Piotrsko]

My understanding of the process is: different uraniums require different masses to self excite but they mostly should. Why loft 100lbs when a different isotope only needs 10?

[oil pan 4]

The appeal of uranium 233 is its easy to make if your not in a hurry. Seems a lot more like plutonium than enriched uranium.
Information on U233 weapons appears to be censored, 50 years too late imo. But if it paves the way for thorium power then by all means.

[Piotrsko]

Once again, my understanding is distillation process not a make it process. I don't know of enrichment process that will add that much energy / electrons of the atom. Easier to keep it classified than to review it for release.

[oil pan 4]

U233 seemed to be considered irrelevant, obsolete by the US government. Nearly all the literature out there on U233 is positive and little mention of nuclear proliferation.

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

U233 seemed to be considered irrelevant, obsolete by the US government. Nearly all the literature out there on U233 is positive and little mention of nuclear proliferation.

This is similar to why we don’t use horses to farm very often.

For weapons one is easier to use with less material

Thorium and it’s derivatives are unlikely to be use for weapon stock and it’s unfortunate power generation is tied at the hip to weapons

[Piotrsko]

Not that you can't use them for weapons it is just rather pointless. Die of radiation poisoning before it went Critical. The horses analogy is spot on and typically weapons are for using against the opposing side

[freebeard]

This is similar to why we don’t use horses to farm for cavalry very often. More analogous analogy.

Is forestry farming?

https://www.filson.com › blog › field-notes › brief-history-of-horse-logging
A Brief History of Horse Logging | The Filson Journal
Horse logging enables foresters to get into spots where skidders and bulldozers can't go and surgically remove trees without compacting soil or cutting wide swaths for roads. A horse can maneuver upslope or through the brush that big machines can't. The only fuel required for these solar-powered engines is hay, grasses, and grains.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Is forestry farming?

Possibly. There are some eucalyptus and pine plantations, usually as feedstocks to paper industry, which are managed like a farm even though the handling of the produce is forestry.