Reply To: Fusion Oil

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zapkitty wrote:

Let’s imagine you accidentally ingested 11 grams of the stuff; that would be 6.022×10^23 atoms; all of this would be gone in 79 half-lives = 1606 minutes or about 1.11 days.

… er… that number is pretty meaningless without the dose rate and, while I’ve not done the calculations for an FF unit either, I [em]do[/em] know that carbon-11 is [em]hot[/em] while it lasts.

So it’s a good thing that the 100% conversion of fusion product to 11C that you speculate on is simply impossible 🙂

Very small amounts of 11C are safely used in PET scans but anything like the “11 grams” you mentioned would be near-instantly fatal inside a human.

we weren’t calculating the dose, yet. i had only gotten far enough to show that the isotope could not possibly build up in the reactor