To borrow a term from the illustrious Howard Tayler. Given the closest equivalency to what Unity can eat is Sergeant Schlock? Why not call Unity a _Mundivore_, which evidently is latin for “World Eater”.
Probably a lot since the Department of Energy won’t give NASA any more, because NASA keeps putting it on space probes and throwing them far into distant space, never to come back.
If we’re talking about power generation, thorium won’t work for space probes. They use radioactive material as a heat source for RTG’s (making electricity based on temperature differential.)
We haven’t found a way yet to economically process thorium to the point where it would react at normal temperatures/pressures. Thorium reactors today have to keep the material under high heat/pressure to work properly.
I don’t see how Thorium reaction requirements are relevant to RTGs, as they operate based on decay radiation. I would think it more likely to be a combination of difficulty producing it and the decay half-life of Thorium isotopes being unsuitable for deep space missions. 228Th has a much shorter half-life than 238Pu so would burn out too quickly, and 229Th has a much longer half-life so you would need far more of it to produce a reasonable level of power.
The beauty of the thorium reactor is that by melting thorium salt with Uranium salt the reaction that converts all the thorium into radio stable products and the uranium stays undepleted. No plutonium is created in the process allowing reactors to be placed any where on earth. Finally the liquid nature of the reactor allows for relatively easy nuclear chemistry .
Tip is a pervert and a weirdo. The problem isn’t walking around in a skirt, at least at home. That’s just being practical. But the overspending is just shameful and deleterious to the maintenance of a harmonious household. That defeats the whole purpose. I mean, obviously. Am I the only normal person here? (I am keeping up a Jerry Spring tradition. The guests must all agree that there’s only one normal person among them. They just disagree over which one of them it is.)
And now I must file unity under “extreme omnivore”
“Obligate extreme omnivore”.
To borrow a term from the illustrious Howard Tayler. Given the closest equivalency to what Unity can eat is Sergeant Schlock? Why not call Unity a _Mundivore_, which evidently is latin for “World Eater”.
What does plutonium go for these days?
Probably a lot since the Department of Energy won’t give NASA any more, because NASA keeps putting it on space probes and throwing them far into distant space, never to come back.
Why not just use thorium?
Actually, that’s a damn fine question for nuclear power plants too. As I understand it, thorium produces less toxic waste.
If we’re talking about power generation, thorium won’t work for space probes. They use radioactive material as a heat source for RTG’s (making electricity based on temperature differential.)
We haven’t found a way yet to economically process thorium to the point where it would react at normal temperatures/pressures. Thorium reactors today have to keep the material under high heat/pressure to work properly.
I don’t see how Thorium reaction requirements are relevant to RTGs, as they operate based on decay radiation. I would think it more likely to be a combination of difficulty producing it and the decay half-life of Thorium isotopes being unsuitable for deep space missions. 228Th has a much shorter half-life than 238Pu so would burn out too quickly, and 229Th has a much longer half-life so you would need far more of it to produce a reasonable level of power.
The beauty of the thorium reactor is that by melting thorium salt with Uranium salt the reaction that converts all the thorium into radio stable products and the uranium stays undepleted. No plutonium is created in the process allowing reactors to be placed any where on earth. Finally the liquid nature of the reactor allows for relatively easy nuclear chemistry .
It also allows for relatively easy conventional chemistry.
Nothing burns like a leaky thorium reactor.
They should be put them into major metropolitan centres, just to make the nuclear age look futuristic again.
According to this website: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2008/AndrewMorel.shtml Weapons-grade Plutonium (Pu-238) was going for ca. $4000/gr. in 2008. I would guess that it’s appreciably more now.
Typo alert. Pu-238 is not used in weapons.
Plutonium that is 93+ % Pu-239 is weapons grade.
For all you might want to know on the subject see:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100429092527/http://depletedcranium.com/why-you-cant-build-a-bomb-from-spent-fuel/
AARGH!!! Not the first time I’ve gotten that wrong… (Which isotope is which tends to get confusing for me beyond U-235 and U-238.)
About 20 – 25 in a federal pen.
Plutonium goes right to your hips.
With some girls that’s exactly where it’s needed.
Be careful where you leave that, Unity. Who knows what sort of bizarre mutant creature will arise?
Mr. Hanky?
Or Mister Bill. It depends on what material the radiation is absorbed by…
(“OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”)
Oh, it’s probably decayed back to uranium by then.
I always feel queasy about Unity’s lunch.
So, Tip’s ponytail was an extension?
Tip is a pervert and a weirdo. The problem isn’t walking around in a skirt, at least at home. That’s just being practical. But the overspending is just shameful and deleterious to the maintenance of a harmonious household. That defeats the whole purpose. I mean, obviously. Am I the only normal person here? (I am keeping up a Jerry Spring tradition. The guests must all agree that there’s only one normal person among them. They just disagree over which one of them it is.)
I have no idea where this storyline is going, but I’m enjoying the ride
One. Great. Line. After. Another!
If, for every perfect dress Tremontino provides you, you provide him two perfect dresses, well, then…you’re twice the man he is, Tip Wilkin.
Love the Archie Bunker reference.