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Can you explain why they would be so easily detectable? my understanding is that many space vessels use micro-reactors for power. Couldn't you just use pluton
by elif 9y ago
Can you explain why they would be so easily detectable?
my understanding is that many space vessels use micro-reactors for power.
Couldn't you just use plutonium warheads so that they look like one of those?
- aw1621107 9y agoI wouldn't say "many"; nuclear-powered vessels generally are ones that are going well beyond Earth's orbit. They also aren't "normal" nuclear reactors, since they use the heat from radioactive decay to power thermocouples, as opposed to sustaining an active fission reaction like most nuclear power plants here do.