@fixman88
I should also point out (not just to you but to everyone) that nuclear devices can’t go off that easily…
Well, using a gun-type mechanism, they MIGHT, but I think that was only used once, ever, experimentally. Typically, fission bombs work by being encased in explosives that all have to go off at the exact right time with extreme precision. Fusion bombs require even more precision - and require a fission bomb going off to trigger them.
Fission reactors don’t have high enough grade of material to explode. A meltdown is called a “meltdown” because the core melts - not explodes. A fusion power generator may have a chamber in millions of degrees, but the gas inside is so thin that the temperature you’d feel (energy per volume) is only about 100*F - it’s just there’s very, very few atoms, so the energy per atom is extremely high. This means the pressure of a fusion vessel is typically less than atmospheric. In other words - you can’t make a fusion powerplant explode like a fusion bomb no matter how hard you try.
Clearing up some common misconceptions about nuclear devices is all :q (And one of the major plot points of Batman: Dark Knight Rises, but only one of its many, many, many plotholes)
I suppose I should point out that you can’t make a hydrogen bomb that small. So-called “suitcase nukes” do exist but use plutonium.The smallest the US ever deployed was the Davy Crockett nuclear device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
I should also point out (not just to you but to everyone) that nuclear devices can’t go off that easily…
Well, using a gun-type mechanism, they MIGHT, but I think that was only used once, ever, experimentally. Typically, fission bombs work by being encased in explosives that all have to go off at the exact right time with extreme precision. Fusion bombs require even more precision - and require a fission bomb going off to trigger them.
Fission reactors don’t have high enough grade of material to explode. A meltdown is called a “meltdown” because the core melts - not explodes. A fusion power generator may have a chamber in millions of degrees, but the gas inside is so thin that the temperature you’d feel (energy per volume) is only about 100*F - it’s just there’s very, very few atoms, so the energy per atom is extremely high. This means the pressure of a fusion vessel is typically less than atmospheric. In other words - you can’t make a fusion powerplant explode like a fusion bomb no matter how hard you try.
Clearing up some common misconceptions about nuclear devices is all :q (And one of the major plot points of Batman: Dark Knight Rises, but only one of its many, many, many plotholes)
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