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I’m not qualified to answer, but there was a bit of discussion about the idea on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/57peek/can_y...



Interesting.

I don’t think it’s that hard to build a vessel full of warm radioactive pebbles to boil water.

Sorting ore by chemical element, and then making a fluid / gas / solution of the fuel element to sort by isotope mass in a centrifuge may or may not be doable for “blacksmith” level technology, though. Hard to say.




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