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Is this splitting hares? Am I being pedantic? I dunno. To me, it's a pretty massive distinction. To someone who knows naught but from a fissionable material to an ass on the ground, perhaps. Misinformation about nuclear power in news media irritates me in a very specific way. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1546271)
Again, I'm hearing "nuclear reactor explosion," despite the fact that all evidence points to an RTG, not a reactor.
Is this splitting hares? Am I being pedantic? I dunno. To me, it's a pretty massive distinction. To someone who knows naught but from a fissionable material to an ass on the ground, perhaps. Misinformation about nuclear power in news media irritates me in a very specific way. That being said, it's almost certainly worse from a contamination perspective to blow up a large RTG (perhaps one big enough to provide electrical power for a weapons system) than to blow up a small, un-operated nuclear reactor. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1546271)
Is this splitting hares?
It's the equivalent of a dirty bomb rather than a "meltdown" from what I'm hearing, right? It doesn't help that this is Putin's high profile technological device touted as a matter of national pride. They would lie anyway but it will be worse this time. Something something country obsessed with not being humiliated. |
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