08-08-2016, 12:31 AM
(08-08-2016, 12:19 AM)Surge Wrote:Fusion can blow. Fusion also is really really fucking radioactive, makes fission seem like a joke. Shame the current only way we know to stop radiation is massive objects, as in lots of atoms.(08-08-2016, 12:13 AM)Rahizel Wrote: The lack of knowledge on nuclear physics in this area astounds me.
NUCLEAR REACTORS AND BOMBS ARE ON THE EXACT OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM.
Reactors strive to be just barely critical for a long time, bombs try to become as intensely critical as quickly as possible.
Reactors don't explode, steam filled pipes explode and sling radioactive material everywhere sometimes, a reactor by design is unable to go supercritical and the amount of safety systems is mind boggling, so far as to have core dumping that lets the whige hot material expand into a sub critical state and cool off.
Actually fusion reactors are capable of exploding, just not going nuclear. If punctured quickly enough the reactor core will explosively decompress.
I've held yellow cake uranium in a jar, if you eat it you die of heavy metal poisoning.
This stuff is fun to discuss tho.