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minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoI need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoIt’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
minus-squareSneezycat@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 hours agoIt’ll be really funny in 100 000 years.
I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.
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
It’ll be really funny in 100 000 years.