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      9 months ago

      polonium would be actually a decent choice, if you picked some heavy beta or gamma emiter you’d get massive amounts of water radiolysis which means that over time tea would be bleached out and you end up with water again. another good isotope would be plutonium 238

      and samovar probably needs to be made out of tungsten or kept in reinforced concrete vault to keep radiation in and not out

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          9 months ago

          the heat comes from alpha decay, not from spontaneous fission. if that was the case, you’d have massive neutron flux to deal with, but it’s only alphas which are very easy to stop, like with polonium

          just add high temperature heat pipes. tea doubles as shielding