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Fortunately that kind of not a thing. Pulling fuel out of a reactor without special tools and training would 100% kill you, and trying to build a bomb with a fu
by ch4s3 5y ago
Fortunately that kind of not a thing. Pulling fuel out of a reactor without special tools and training would 100% kill you, and trying to build a bomb with a fuel rod assuming you got it out would also kill you. Transporting that bomb without thick concrete or lead shielding would also kill you. Blowing it up would put a bunch of heavy dust in the air that would fall out quickly and could easily be washed off of anyone it got on without significantly endangering them as long as they don't consume it. And after all of that, NATO might get involved.
TL;DR it would take a concerted effort to build such a bomb without killing yourself only to build a worse bomb that would draw in NATO.
- Aeolun 5y agoI think he is referring to (accidentaly) blowing up the plant in a Chernobyl’esqye kind of way.
- ch4s3 5y agoIf they destroy the containment buildings, which might take more than mortar fire then the reactor would probably SCRAM since it's a PWR. There might be a steam explosion, and maybe some localized radiation leak. Really heavy arial bombardment could, if it broke containment, spread fissile material around the immediate area, cause a huge fire, and throw some radioactive debris into the air. That would all be quite bad, but not Chernobyl bad. Chernobyl was a graphite pile reactor with no containment building, and none of those exist anymore fortunately. I should aadd that VVER's like the reactor in question have missile shields for precisely this reason, and a bunch of other passive features. It shouldn't explode. 2nd Edit: what I’m concerned about is artillery hitting spent fuel containment. I don’t know if they used hardened casks, or if they’re using pools that might be in a less hardened building. Whoever is shelling this thing is insane, or very stupid.