Is there any way to get electricity out of a nuclear reactor

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yes, optical or direct conversion

>>9042661
fuck off Goldstein

>>9042650
None feasible with current or near future technology.

>>9042661
this. fuck drumpf and fuck white people

>>9042664
Dangerous or Expensive?

>>9042650

Turning a turbine is by far the most efficient method but you could get energy from it thru other, much more expensive and technically difficult, means.

>>9042650
Yes, but they're considerably less efficient.

>>9042867
this, we're also very good at turbines of all kinds.

>>9042650
>Is there any way to get electricity out of a nuclear reactor besides using it to boil water and turn a steam engine?
yup, several. the one most famous is used in long distance space probes like voyager etc...
>A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect. This generator has no moving parts.
>RTGs have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes, and unmanned remote facilities such as a series of lighthouses built by the former Soviet Union inside the Arctic Circle. RTGs are usually the most desirable power source for unmaintained situations that need a few hundred watts (or less) of power for durations too long for fuel cells, batteries, or generators to provide economically, and in places where solar cells are not practical. Safe use of RTGs requires containment of the radioisotopes long after the productive life of the unit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

You can boil supercritical CO2 instead.
Fission fragment reactors

>>9042650
Boil any number of other substances.

Boiling molten sodium is the most exotic material that I know of that a commercial size reactor has been run on successfully