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A nuclear brick is a small [[RTG]] or nuclear reactor built to the form-factor of a [[brick]] and controlled by a wireless network.  They are to power brick furnaces and heaters for [[smelting]], casting, [[glass]] melting and curing, heating of habitats and greenhouses, heating of chemicals, and other thermal processes.  A plutonium-powered RTG could last several years but has a much lower specific power than an americium-242-powered nuclear reactor.  A 1.6 kg americium core can produce 70 kW of thermal power but this core must be replaced every 80 days of operation.  Americium-242 exists on Earth as a byproduct of normal nuclear reactors. <ref name=Genuth>Genuth, Iddo, 2006, ''Americium Power Source'', TFOT The Future of Things. [http://thefutureofthings.com/articles.php?itemId=26/64/] </ref>{{Failed verification}}
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A nuclear brick is a small [[RTG]] or nuclear reactor built to the form-factor of a [[brick]] and controlled by a wireless network.  They are to power brick furnaces and heaters for [[smelting]], casting, [[glass]] melting and curing, heating of habitats and greenhouses, heating of chemicals, and other thermal processes.  A plutonium-powered RTG could last several years but has a much lower specific power than an americium-242-powered nuclear reactor.  A 1.6 kg americium core can produce 70 kW of thermal power but this core must be replaced every 80 days of operation.  Americium-242 exists on Earth as a byproduct of normal nuclear reactors. <ref name=Genuth>Genuth, Iddo, 2006, ''Americium Power Source'', TFOT The Future of Things. [http://thefutureofthings.com/articles.php?itemId=26/64/] </ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 21:19, 22 February 2010

A nuclear brick is a small RTG or nuclear reactor built to the form-factor of a brick and controlled by a wireless network. They are to power brick furnaces and heaters for smelting, casting, glass melting and curing, heating of habitats and greenhouses, heating of chemicals, and other thermal processes. A plutonium-powered RTG could last several years but has a much lower specific power than an americium-242-powered nuclear reactor. A 1.6 kg americium core can produce 70 kW of thermal power but this core must be replaced every 80 days of operation. Americium-242 exists on Earth as a byproduct of normal nuclear reactors. [1]

References

  1. Genuth, Iddo, 2006, Americium Power Source, TFOT The Future of Things. [1]