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zkms | 1 year ago

If there are plants (there is a patent and a paper describing this in some algae, IDK if it has been replicated or not...) that have preferences (kinetic isotope effect!) for one isotope of uranium over the other you could technically have a uranium enrichment plant made from uranium enrichment...plants.

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gilleain|1 year ago

Possibly relevant:

https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2333/ - "Contribution of the nuclear field shift to kinetic uranium isotope fractionation", Geochemical Perspectives Letters v27

"By following the fractionation of 233U, 235U, 236U and 238U during the enzymatic reduction of hexavalent U to tetravalent U by the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, we provide the first direct evidence of the nuclear field shift effect during biologically controlled kinetic isotope fractionation."

exe34|1 year ago

Have a feeling this kind of idea is born secret

WJW|1 year ago

It's not like you can just buy some uranium to experiment with in your home lab, so even if a normie had this idea they would probably not be able to test it in any way.