• 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