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The scale is a little different though. Say a 300MW submarine reactor runs for 10 years, the energy produced is about 20 megatons. The energy in a bomb might be
by vilhelm_s 8y ago
The scale is a little different though. Say a 300MW submarine reactor runs for 10 years, the energy produced is about 20 megatons. The energy in a bomb might be 400 kt, half of it from fission, so the reactor will contain a hundred times more spent fuel.
- kenneth 8y agoWe've blown up nukes all the way to 50Mt. But granted, the underwater tests were in the kt ranges.