• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I need someone to explain the joke. Waiting 100,000 years for radioactive decay seems to be a bit boring as a punch line.

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      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