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Conflating nuclear weapons and nuclear power is one thing that I will never forgive my parent's generation for. To nit pick however. An A-bomb and Chernobyl a
by ScotterC 16y ago
Conflating nuclear weapons and nuclear power is one thing that I will never forgive my parent's generation for.
To nit pick however. An A-bomb and Chernobyl are also completely different. Chernobyl was a graphite moderated reactor which means it does not have a negative void coefficient (unlike American light water reactors) but has fuel with about 5% U-235. An A-bomb requires about 90% U-235 to sustain a chain reaction. I can nit pick this a lot further but that's the general gist.