Re:How do plutonium-powered pacemakers work?
by sargun on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:22AM
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I wish it was easier to get your hands on refined isotopes. I believe it'd spawn quite a bit of interesting industrial research that's being held back right now. A lot of this waste is a nuisance, but I believe if it was easier to get access to it, we'd see someone start to solve the waste problem.
Re:How do plutonium-powered pacemakers work?
by ComputerGuru on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:02PM
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Definitely agree. I didn’t know about the supply/production issue, though. Thanks for that.
My answer was of course a pure hypothetical, focusing on the pragmatism in a world where the safety issues were non-existent, presuming demand would drive supply.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Mission_Radioisotope_The...
People talk about using isotopes from nuclear waste for this kind of thing a lot but they're usually considered too expensive.