uranium and plutonium
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Uranium should be more realistic. For example,right now it gets hot under pressure. This is extremely incorrect. Uranium should decay into neutrons and decayed uranium (to simplify it). The uranium should get hot and decay faster when subjected to neutrons.
Then I need to research plutonium again because I forgot exactly how it works.
It's basically like uranium but it requires larger amounts of neutrons to react, so I think that it should produce less neutrons.
Both uranium and plutonium should produce neutrons by themselves. This plus what's said above would allow users to make realistic bombs and power plants.
Also I believe that decayed uranium +protons and neutrons should equal plutonium.
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Technically depleted uranium is just uranium 238 with a partial amount of 235. And two other elements that i can't remember right now. I think one is 70something and the other is 120something. So that argument is invalid.
Never does uranium create heat just from pressure.
Also the addition of water slowing down neutrons would be perfect if the uranium was changed. As of now there's no reason for it
Edited once by jombo23. Last: 27th Oct 2014 -
What I think they should do is, they should make other types of uranium. The depleed/near pure 238 uranium, witch wouldn't do anything but the production of a few neutrons, the very enriched uranium (nearly pure 235), witch would act like powder toy's plutonium (and also replacible by it, just like irl) and finaly, the capability of mixing both 238 uranium and 235 uranium (or plutonium), so that the 235 produces neutrons and the 238 abosbs them making more heat. with low amounts of 235 having no explosions at all (just heat for nuclear reactors, again just like irl) and high amounts of 235 exploding like plutonium (maybe making 235 need large amounts of heat or pressure to explode, unless it has more than a certain number of 235s around it).
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I too love me some nuclear reactions!
I have a script with decays chains, but only 2 reactions "upwards", and most elements have no uses.
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What I think would be cool is if: 1 - uranium produced neutrons, 2 - if that had something to do with it heating up, instead of pressure causing that, witch is really unrealistic.
That would allow for more realistic nuclear powerplants, making the neutron reducing speed property water has a lot more useful, making neutron absorbing properties gold and titanium have a lot more useful, making ceramics transparency to neutrons a lot more useful and allowing for a reaction witch neutrons, witch only produces heat and more neutrons, but not an explosion, like plutonium.
