#deuterium

Scientists just recreated a 1938 experiment that could rewrite fusion history

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in Physical Review C, the reworking of the previously unheralded experiment confirmed the role of University of Michigan physicist Arthur Ruhlig, whose 1938 experiment and observation of deuterium-tritium fusion likely planted the seed for a physics process that informs national security work and nuclear energy research to this day. "As we've uncovered, Ruhlig's contribution was to hypothesize that DT fusion happens with very high probability when deuterium and tritium are brought sufficiently close together," said Mark Chadwick, associate Laboratory director for Science, Computation and Theory at Los Alamos. "Replicating his experiment helped us interpret his work and better understand his role, and what proved to be his essentially correct conclusions. The course of nuclear fuel physics has borne out the profound consequences of Arthur Ruhlig's clever insight."

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Deuterium oxide - Hydrogen sample

Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen - an alternative formulation that contains one neutron alongside the one proton. Here, I have 10 grams of "heavy water", whose hydrogen is all its deuterium isotope.

Heavy water is slightly denser than the normal stuff, with a heavy ice cube sinking in non-heavy DHMO. It has what I would describe as a "hollow" sweetness; don't drink too much of it, though, as its slight differences to normal water mean it'll kill you if it replaces about half your body's water.

Source: United Nuclear

Date of Acquisition: ca. Jul 2021

Price: $15 (then), $29 (now)

Back from a hiatus because this one is a doozy to do but I've decided hey, let myself loose a bit and stop taking things too seriously! So I made a satirical take on it by basing it on Vault Boy with theme! So...

Day 8 - Nuclear Power

In the advent of the next Industrial Revolution, innovations in generating nuclear power have seen advancements necessary to pivot it to (relatively) safe commercial use in even everyday batteries. This prompted a mad scramble for energy companies to invest in R&D for nuclear power. However, environmentalists, activists and especially oil companies (that funded the former) have been staunch opponents of this venture as they aim to strengthen the public stigma against nuclear power use. Big energy companies such as TriEn Corp., thus, would find ways to grab the public's attention more positively to promote nuclear energy.

To strengthen their PR and front-facing business, they hired an artist who would design their company mascot, Trix Tritium, to promote the benefits of nuclear energy (and possibly downplay its hazardous effects). She was marginally successful, playing into her positive attitude to win people over social media, but not enough to garner enough attention from the public to care.

However, to the dismay of the company and to the amusement of the artist who made her, it wasn't until a user (possibly an employee from a TriEn Nuclear Power Plant) that her popularity skyrocketed when leaks of danger signs for various hazards in the plant were posted on their social media. These were not supposed to be public, but the shocking yet playful nature of what happens to her when dealing with the hazards had spawned several jokes and fan art online, inspired by her predicaments.

Oops, All Neutrons is also known as Neutral Quadrium, Nydnonen, and Goth Tritium.