Can Uranium still go fision while molten

  • nOtelite
    1st Jul 2022 Member 1 Permalink

    Can uranium or other radioactive elements still go fission while it is molten (in real life). For example in case of a reactor meltdown can Corium heat itself? I just wonder.

    Edited 7 times by nOtelite. Last: 1st Jul 2022
  • JozeffTech
    2nd Jul 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    In real life, any fissile elements undergo fission in any state, even in gaseous. Take radon, for example.

  • ArolaunTech
    3rd Jul 2022 Member 1 Permalink

    Yes, in IRL they do. The atoms are still the same, that's what matters for fissionability, not the state of matter.

  • SamDwich
    27th Jul 2022 Member 1 Permalink

    @JozeffTech (View Post)

     Please don't give Russia ideas, I don't want nuke gas in this world.

  • JozeffTech
    27th Jul 2022 Member 0 Permalink

    @SamDwich 

    Did you know? I am Russian. And gaseous uranium is actually pretty useful.