alt Hacker NewsInteresting. Bring on the A-bomb foundries! Had this been discovered during the exploration phase of atomic bomb use we probably would have seen A-bomb foundry proposals.
There is a hypothesized process in this paper that sounds like a graduate thesis on its own.
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GolfPopper • today at 4:22 PM
What, you mean, like American Machine and Foundry building nuclear reactors?
https://www.ans.org/news/article-1858/elk-river-rural-americ...
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tokai • today at 4:32 PM
I bet a nuclear foundry can be bundled with atomic mining ala Project Plowshare. Guess we are lucky we didn't get the future the atomic age promised.
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Explosion welding is a real thing that’s a tiny bit like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding