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Post by someusername6 on Jul 5, 2017 0:59:51 GMT
Error message on RTG: "Thermocouple hot temperature is less than its cold temperature". Not sure I understand how that couple be the case / reads like an error to me?
I was trying to implement Gold-198 as a mod, mostly for the sake of it -- the half life is hilariously short at 2.69 days, and the beta decay power is non-trivial at 1.372 MeV. I don't expect this to be practical -- I was implementing it to see how high the cost would go, and for the "build a ship out of gold" challenge. This produces a ridiculously high radioactive decay specific power of 1.99 MW / kg, which I think, along with the short half life and the requirement of an operational RTG for 6 months, must be overflowing / underflowing something.
Elements.txt:Element Gold Symbol Au-198 AtomicMass 198 AtomicNumber 79 MolarMass_g__mol 197.9682 FirstIonizationEnergy_kJ__mol 890.1 MeanGammaRayMassAbsorptionCoefficient_cm2__g 6.953E-02 HalfLife_s 232862.688 BetaDecay_keV 1372.8 SolarAbundance 0 Emission Gold TransmutationParents Au
Radionuclides.txt:Material Gold-198 Elements Au-198 ElementCount 1 Density_kg__m3 19398 YoungsModulus_GPa 79 ShearModulus_GPa 27 SpecificHeat_J__kg_K 128 MeltingPoint_K 1337.33 BoilingPoint_K 3243 ThermalConductivity_W__m_K 320 ThermalExpansion__K 14.2e-6 Resistivity_Ohm_m 22.41e-9 RefractiveIndex Gold RoughnessCoefficient .3
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