fyi: it does happen in nature en.wikipedia.org/…/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto…
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I gotta ask a question.
How in the hell did anyone develope nuclear power without advanced materials?
If the race hadn’t made it to the bronze age equivalent, there’s no way they could build and shield a reactor.
I mean, unless it’s magic fission or fusion, I guess. A god or a powerful enough spell providing the equivalent materials would work, though it seems a bit odd that they didn’t just magic up other alloys instead, particularly with them being underwater.
I know you have to have lore explaining how it worked, even if it’s only in your head and it has me rabidly curious.
bort@feddit.de 10 months ago
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
There obvs would be more steps to refine the tech, mainly figuring out how to refine the uranium ore, but thats the biggest step.
The main obstacle for taking this route to technology is how the people who experiment with making nuclear power more efficient keep dying of cancer. Conveniently, this race is so short-lived that they tend to die of old age before the cancer has time to kill them. In addition, they live in water, which eats most of the radiation.
They use nuclear power for all sorts of other things too, like cooking food and heating their houses. I at one point had the idea that I should let one of the cephalopodians give the party a space heater, but I couldn’t figure out how to make their reactors compact enough for that.