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As far as I know, a reactor can be used for both purposes at the same time.
by eloff 9y ago
As far as I know, a reactor can be used for both purposes at the same time.
- ExcelSaga 9y agoTo be efficient as a power plant a reactor needs to spend most of its time operating. If you want to make nuclear material for bombs with this kind of reactor it will enter a number of startup-shutdown cycles, which would make it inefficient, and would be very noticeable. Of course they recently extended the coolant outflow quite a bit to mask the thermal signature of operation, but it should still be possible to determine a rough operational schedule.