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Neutrons and uranium- nothing happens?

  • Polariz     30th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Nothing happens when I let neutrons loose amongst uranium. I'm not an expert on nuclear fission but shouldn't the uranium molecules split and release mass amounts of energy?

  • xetalim     30th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Plutonium does that

  • BuysDB     30th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Not in tpt, energy (heat) release is based on pressure. https://powdertoy.co.uk/Wiki/W/Elements:Radioactive.html#Uranium

    (Use plutonium or deut)
  • therocketeer     30th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    That's what happens in real life, but in tpt, its not simulated to do that because plutonium already does that. There's no use having 2 identical elements.
  • BoredInSchool     30th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Actually, the URAN in tpt is modelled off an isotope of uranium that isn't really fissile; most likely URAN is based off of U-238. In other words, it doesn't undergo nuclear fission when you shoot neutrons at it. I had suggested an element called U235, which would have represented the isotope that comes to mind when most people think of uranium: the one that goes BEWM. Unfortunatley, my suggestion thread got buried under a flood of new topics and was never seen again.

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