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[Donn]

Would leave theoretically radioactive material heating a water circuit as power source.
Though i do not expect any normal person to get hands on enough material and survive the constuction of the machine.

Yeah, and a geiger-counter may cover that...

 

[Carn]

Yeah, and a geiger-counter may cover that...

Not neccesarily, alpha emitter can heat water as well and alpha particles are stopped completely by 2 cm lead or even less, so if a pure alpha emitter is used as energy source inside a water circuit and that is surronded by 10 cm of lead i do not think that a geiger counter would measure anything as long as you do not crack the lead open.

Maybe it could be done with beta emitter as well and a bit more lead.

Of course the products of the alpha decay have to be either alpha emitters themselves as well or completely inactive and the half time of the initial material has to be several thousands of years, so maybe there is no material that could be used in that way, but i'm not certain and even experts would need some time to check if there is a material, that would meet this criteria.

And the lead itself might become radioactive after some month/years, which would cause the need for even additional layers of lead.

Would then be difficult to fit it on a table.

Thinking about it, for prelim test its certainly enough to let machine run for half a year, use a geiger counter and check if there are huge amounts of blocking material like lead.

Carn

 

[Donn]

Thinking about it, for prelim test its certainly enough to let machine run for half a year, use a geiger counter and check if there are huge amounts of blocking material like lead.

Sorted.