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sometimes I think that this is a much bigger reason for nuclear electricity than anybody would ever publicly admit. to the point that if you remove all apperanc
by bsedlm 5y ago
sometimes I think that this is a much bigger reason for nuclear electricity than anybody would ever publicly admit. to the point that if you remove all apperances (politics, marketing, etc) this is THE biggest drive behind the push to nuclear
- jjk166 5y agoNot really, while yes any nuclear reactor could in theory be used to produce weapons grade material, in practice designs optimized for plutonium breeding are radically different from power generating plants. Further, you don't need nuclear reactors for weapons material production, you can just enrich uranium. In fact, enriching uranium in sufficient quantity for reactors actually requires significantly larger and more expensive set ups than would be needed for weapons production. There might be some small states that want to disguise their weapons programs as peaceful power generation programs, but for countries like China and the US which are already well known to possess such weapons, there's really no incentive.
- danny_codes 5y agoI fail to see how this is relevant. China can already make nuclear weapons and presumably has a MAD amount. Nobody needs more than a couple hundred thermonuclear weapons, there's nothing left to hit with the next 100.