21 Sep
2005
21 Sep
'05
3:15 p.m.
--- "R. William Gosper" <rwg@osots.com> wrote:
So how come we haven't been mining D2O ice from the sea/lake floor?-)
Someone has already posted an answer to this. Ice contains nearly, but not exactly, the same fraction of deuterium as the water from which it freezes.
Similarly, do thermal neutrons dribble out the bottoms of reactors, creating a column of chemical and isotopic peculiarities below?
They dribble out in all directions. Neutrons have mass 1, compared to N2 mass 28 and O2 mass 32. A neutron atmosphere would be about 30 times thicker than the normal one.
(Do submariners bunk under the powerplant??) --rwg
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