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Can you not stop it by sending it commands to turn off the reactor?
by Santosh83 9y ago
Can you not stop it by sending it commands to turn off the reactor?
- mikeash 9y agoThen it’ll crash and you’ll have a nice Chernobyl to deal with.
- IdeaHamstir 9y agoSeveral orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl. The reactor that lost containment was a gigawatt production plant. A gigawatt nuclear ramjet would be so huge there would be no trouble detecting it and shooting it down near the launch site.
- mikeash 9y agoMost of Chernobyl’s material stayed in the reactor, though. A hypersonic crash would disperse a much bigger proportion of the material. I don’t know how the two factors balance out exactly.