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Ok, let me just add the obvious disclaimer: don't try this yourself unless you have a pretty good understanding of chemical lab safety.

Really.

It's more likely that you will contaminate your land, and possibly your neighbors land too than that you will manage to replicate it.



You are vastly overestimating the danger involved in this.


There's no safe dose of lead.


Yes, there obviously is. One attogram is obviously safe. From there, it's necessary to look at the numbers.


Given the materials and methods involved it really isn’t that dangerous. With basic precautions I’d say go for it, worst case is honestly just blowing a few hundred bucks. If this pans out, there will definitely be some do it yourself tutorials on YouTube in the coming weeks.


What do you suppose the odds are that there's a Tin-based compound instead of lead based?

(Which would effectively make a bizarre form of brass a superconductor)


I doubt this one chemistry will be all that useful on practice. But after people understand it, I expect them to recreate the effect with completely different components, not on just slightly different ones.


Not really, cuprates have been the standard for high Tc superconductors since 1986 and nobody could replace them with easier to work with materials.


Bronze, right?

Brass is copper and zink.


I swear I typed bronze…


It's more likely that you are confusing lead and Sarin.


Yes, but chernobyl produced a lot of useful electricity (at first)


For years, and then after the explosion too. The last reactors were decommissioned around 2015 (it takes years, so the dates are bit washy).

Chernobyl wasn't the accident people seem to think. It wasn't inevitable, it was the result of numerous self-serving decisions exacerbated and even required in the very messed up Soviet system of management that enforced following the party instructions over all other possible complications.


> numerous self-serving decisions

And much of the cost of nuclear is hedging against these decisions, whether by profit-seeking or the tyranny of a totalitarian state


No? Not really? International standards exist


Unfortunately they have a point, in that there is no ISO or DIN standard that covers a plant that has been rigged with explosives by invading barbarians.

The solution isn't to abandon nuclear power, but to make it very costly for aggressors to meddle with it. E.g., deploy UN forces to the plant at the first sign of trouble.




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