DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems

Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by XorNot on Friday August 09, 2024 @08:32PM (#41206508)

I've always said that I'm more afraid of heavy metal contamination then nuclear material contamination.

There are no hand held devices which will tell you if the soil you're vaguely near has heavy metals in it, nor how much.

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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by CamperBob2 on Friday August 09, 2024 @08:47PM (#41206556)

There are no hand held devices which will tell you if the soil you're vaguely near has heavy metals in it, nor how much.

Well, technically, there are, but now you're back in the ionizing-radiation business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdfHVcU8U7U

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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po... by im3w1l on Saturday August 10, 2024 @03:41AM (#41207966)

I've been thinking for a while that there are so many possible sources of poisons it's very hard to monitor them all. But there is only one of me. So logically I should check if I have elevated levels of poisons. Then, and only then does it make sense to start monitoring my surroundings to trace where it came from.

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