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I have a basic understanding about the fissioning process in atom bombs and in nuclear reactors but that's not what my question is about. It's about a nuclear pile of a radio-active material. A pile of the element to power a space station of considerable size like say 500,000 Metric Tons. Is it feasible to use neutron beta decay of some radioactive element in a pile that could be contained aboard the station? I'm open to alternative suggestions