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Reactors are not bombs, bombs are not reactors.

• est31 8y ago
  Reactors can be used to breed nuclear bomb grade material. Building a dirty bomb is trivial if you can build normal bombs. For upgrading that to a nuke the main difficulty is finding nuke grade material.
  • garmaine 8y ago
    Nope, this isn't true. First of all there are many different kinds of nuclear reactors, and only certain ones can be used for making weapons-grade material. Second, the isotope separation process for U238 or the implosion mechanism for plutonium are either massive or crazy difficult to pull off, and totally unrelated to reactor design. A reactor design doesn't get you anywhere meaningfully closer to building a bomb.
    • SiempreViernes 8y ago
      A reactor gets you experience handling nuclear components, and if chosen with a bomb in mind also plutonium or other useful isotopes. There is a real reason Israel bombed Syria as soon as they got convincing evidence Assad was building a secret reactor.