[NGTM-1R]

On the other hand, if I have to believe the stories of leaking nuclear silos and having no good way of depositing or getting rid of the stuff efficiently, the total cleanup costs and time is going to be quite the trouble, I would wager.

Reactors are not warheads.

And at least part of the reactor problem is self-imposed. The stuff is somewhat recycleable, if we were willing to try.

[Phantom Hoover]

Yeah, to my knowledge a nuclear warhead is far more of a chemical hazard than a radiation one.

[Mongoose]

And at least part of the reactor problem is self-imposed. The stuff is somewhat recycleable, if we were willing to try.

Yeah, the lack of widespread breeder reactor research really bites.

[Phantom Hoover]

Wasn't it overlooked because it wasn't that useful for producing weapons-grade material? Or am I thinking of the thorium cycle.

[Hobbie]

If Australia got nuked, how come that streaker at last night's Origin decider didn't melt from the fallout?

[redsniper]

Wasn't it overlooked because it wasn't that useful for producing weapons-grade material? Or am I thinking of the thorium cycle.

I think it's both. Or something's getting mixed up here...  Aren't breeder reactors the ones that do produce weapons grade stuff?

[Nuke]

the idea behind breeders is that you can regenerate fuel in the core and so can burn for a lot longer than otherwise possible. but more uranium was found and processing became cheaper and proliferation issues came into play and so it was never really developed. these days the idea is still around but to use up "spent" material that would otherwise need to be stored underground for thousands of years. lftr is capale of doing this, but so are more conventional reactor designs.

[haloboy100]

I feel proud that I found the Tsar Bomba on my first view of the video.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm sure if they laid a baseline and drums this would sound neat.


Nuke, you were at the fore of my thoughts when I started this..

[Grizzly]

I think someone needs to recreate this one with DEFCON music and visuals and audio and such.

[haloboy100]

^First thing that came to my mind.