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    3 days ago

    Well, you’d then have another problem. Unlike coal/wood/oil fuel, you can’t turn off radioactive decay.

    You’d have megawatts (gigawatts?) of thermal energy boiling off all your water pretty quickly, and likely eventually melting down your steam engine firebox, and it would be that hot for decades!