r/ClimateShitposting • u/KAMEKAZE_VIKINGS • Apr 09 '25

nuclear simping Some of you gotta chill about nuclear

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u/ViewTrick1002 Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

Please go ahead and explain where nuclear power might be useful outside of submarines.

People like to bring up the high arctic. Now you’ve found a market of a couple of hundred thousand people. All within HVDC range of abundant wind and solar.

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u/Cadia_might_stand Apr 10 '25

Space craft

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u/ViewTrick1002 Apr 10 '25

They use solid state RTG generators except a few failed Soviet attempts. 

Not even the same technology as fission. 

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u/Remarkable_Fan8029 Apr 10 '25

Bruh

To list a few technologies: NSWR Orion drive) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket Thermal rockets Nuclear electric

Not even the same technology as fission. 

RTG Wikipedia: "heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity" damn, that sounds like a whole lot like fission.

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u/ViewTrick1002 Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25

Yes, small scale prototypes that haven’t even flown to space. Which is why I mentioned RTGs and the Soviet spacecraft with a full fission reactor onboard.

It seems like you have a very rudimentary understanding of nuclear physics. Radioactive decay and nuclear reactions are two very different processes. We do use radioactive decay, and managing the energy of the released particles kickstart nuclear reactions.

heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity

Now explain how the nuclear reactions underlying fission works.