So I always wondered what is the issue that countries/companies do not look on manufacturing “mini” atomic generators?
I know that there exist small atomic generators maybe but they are like the size of a house or at least of a room.
Why not using e.g 10 grams or even 1 gram of uranium or any other suitable element to make really small generators that could fit e.g inside a bike or a small car?
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Because it doesn’t matter how much of your 10 grams is U235, 10 grams of uranium will never go fissile. It takes about 100 lbs of it to even get critical mass. Plutonium is better, but it’s still about 23 lbs. It’s really not something that can be miniaturized any more than it already is.
And that’s before you put high radioactivity elements in the hands of people without the expertise necessary to handle it, in the case of the bike/car examples.
In all, 0/10, would not recommend
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