But yes.

The nuclear batteries small enough for handheld devices that we've been reading about recently don't use any water.

They just found rocks that are naturally hot and boiled water with it... Engineering is a scam.

This is reminds me of a quote from one of the Encased loading screens.

To paraphrase it "Power generation before was about turning a turbine with steam. Under the Dome we have this fancy technology that we use to.....turn a turbine with steam."

Reminds me of the meme using the Donnie Darko psychologist template.

Donnie: I made a new form of power generation.

Psychologist: New or steam?

Donnie: Steam...

Nuclear power is just steampunk with magic rocks.

So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

It was interesting realizing that a lot of our power is still, at its core, a steam engine

Nuclear power is just boiling water

Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.

I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.

And then there are thermonuclear generators

The issue is that boiling water is inside human bodies

God damnit Jinyang!

There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.

Some work went into fission designs as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

Nuclear power is the refining distilling and enriching of uranium into unstable isotopes and higher elements, boiling water is one small step in converting nuclear energy into electrical energy.

still waiting for those molten fuel MHD reactors

actually space based nuclear uses thermoelectric

plus a side of extra spicy landfill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

Or melting salt, or whatever. But yes it's just making stuff hot.

Sheng Wang is hilarious! Seriously, if you like comedy then watch his stuff

I heard that somewhere in the US there were parts of a nuclear power plant being delivered by steam train. So that’s basically one steam engine supplying another! (^^,)

I can’t seem to find an article about it anywhere, so it might be an urban legend :(