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Iben
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Reply #26 July 4, 2018 9:34:46 PM
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The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years

according to what I've read, I wonder if we would live longer

if we had some small amount of uranium-238 in us?

Well we probably do.   

 

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Uvah
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Reply #27 July 5, 2018 9:42:44 AM
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Nope. You'd live long enough for the first decay and boom...you're done. Think of it this way, 1 gram of U-235 gets you 24,000 KWh of heat. In terms of yield and depending on the method of conversion used, fission being the only one that works for now, a gram would carve out a pretty large hole in the ground with you at ground zero.

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