• BussyCat@lemmy.world
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    14 小时前

    Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron

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      11 小时前

      I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.

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        1 小时前

        It’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom.

        So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second