US microreactor achieves first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, targets 2028 deployment

[JaredTheDragon]

The design just flawed, Raw salty seawater destroyed those units. Till the point some looters took those things open, apart, with their bare hands, or even a few, sleeping right next to one during a campfire lol.

Radiation is an insane subject. I mean I know there's good instances, the Voyagers currently still up in the universe after so many years. But in space there's no concern to radiation.

Radiation isn't an insane subject at all. WHAT is radiating? Photons. The size (wavelength) differs, but that is always what is radiating. In some cases, the photons are propelling larger particles (electrons, protons/neutrons (hydrogen), or "alphas" (helium)), but the primary particle radiating is always, always the photons.

And literally all matter takes in and recycles photons, constantly. All matter is radiating at all times, only the wavelengths and volumes vary. This is what "charge" actually is, at the foundational level - charge IS photons. Electricity is photons moving N/S through the spinning poles of matter, and magnetism is the photons' spin as it moves out laterally near matter's equator.

The sun's radiation dwarfs all other inputs, followed by Jupiter, the other Jovians, and then the galactic core's input as a tertiary source. But the Earth itself emits a constant charge field of radiation - typically in the infrared wavelength - and that is where we should be harnessing energy, not in fake nuclear reactors that are simply steam engines.

 

[Gravitytr1]

Usher in the dystopia. Gov and corps need those efficient nuclear reactors no matter the human or planetary cost.