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This is about nuclear reactor and not nuclear warhead. Nuclear reactors are used to produce electricity and/or heat and to breed radioactive elements.
by lmilcin 7y ago
This is about nuclear reactor and not nuclear warhead. Nuclear reactors are used to produce electricity and/or heat and to breed radioactive elements.
- ryanmercer 7y agoThis is about a nuclear reactor that was attached to a missile.
- baybal2 7y agoIf you read the news, it is much more akin to a nuclear engine, not a reactor. Either powered by actual expensive artificial isotopes with enough activity to power an engine, OR they actually broke the ban and had it running on pu239 (which would also make its fuel reserve a nice yield booster)
- lmilcin 7y agoNuclear engine IS a nuclear reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor "A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction." Nuclear engine is a device used to initate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction. This is in contrast to nuclear bomb which initiates but does not control the chain reaction. Once the reaction is started nothing else can be done with it (ie. there is no control involved other than setting up initial parameters).
- rpiguy 7y agoYes but this missile is intended to be nuclear armed as well. Obviously the test missile won't have a live warhead, but if it makes production these are nuclear weapons.
- lmilcin 7y agoEven the title says "Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up...".
- nesadi 7y agoBecause Russia has been so truthful about, well, anything and everything they do? No, it's about a nuclear weapon they've been developing and the "nuclear reactor" bit is just a ruse to confuse people who haven't generally been paying attention to Russia developing new kinds of delivery systems for their nuclear warheads.