(SWGO)MinasThirith wrote:They said the same thing about the sun that was going to die someday....now they found out that the sun regenerates itself.
But if these 3 nuclear reactors would totally explode then....it would almost be the same as the 2 atomic bombs from WW2 only this time 3 of them at the same time.
The Sun regenerating itself, that's a new one. That would make our Sun the most unique star we know of!
The sun burns hydrogen into helium in its core. This process is called nuclear fusion. Fusion happens when lighter elements are forced to become heavier elements. When this happens a massive amount of energy is created. Gravity plays a part on all of this and when the fuel is consumed (which is what happening with our sun) the star dies, gravity wins and the star either becomes a white dwarf, neutron star or and black holes for example. Our sun has another 5 billion or so years before this happens and who knows by then we might have learnt to get it to regenerate itself
Btw Nuclear meltdown is different from a nuclear explosion. A weaponised bomb is specifically designed to detonate and is different from a nuclear reactor (fuel rod's etc). Nuclear fuel rods contains pellets and this is made up I think of uranium oxide and nuclear fission is controlled via boron, cadmium, and hafnium to reduce such a critical reaction. A nuclear bomb is made up of uranium (enriched U-235) or plutonium (Pu-239), tritrium and deuterium which is weaponised to cause a chain reaction resulting in a critical mass explosion.
Regards,
Kren