Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)
by ghaff on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:18PM
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Uranium is mostly just for fission though. Assuming the availability of fusion, probably a reasonable assumption given interstellar travel, I'm not sure you really need uranium very much.
Re:The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)
by jhallenworld on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:56PM
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You can use it to make plutonium for bomb pits. So far the only viable fusion devices are H-bombs triggered by such pits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17649-9
Another one might be uranium.