08-08-2016, 04:46 PM
(08-08-2016, 04:38 PM)Rahizel Wrote:(08-08-2016, 04:34 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: //That's not how nuclear materials work, period. Firstoff, you need at minimum a baseball sized mass of highly concentrated nuclear material to make it work at all, and that's using Plutonium which is even more reactive than Uranium. To do it with Uranium you end up with over a ton of the stuff to even have a chance.// that's current day tech.
//Secondly, a critical mass can and will give off lethal amounts of radiation in the blink of an eye. Even a subcritical assembly can give off deadly doses with almost trivial provocations.
//30 feet is not nearly deep enough to shield a core. It would have to be buried more along the lines of 3000 feet deep in a concrete and lead lined vault that could tolerate every conceivable disaster scenario known to mankind to actually stay safe.
//We need to retcon this back to where the mecha was overheating but hadn't yet ejected its core. Otherwise Achroma Comito and I all face dead characters due to lethal radiation exposure, and the town would have to be evacuated due to contamination.
// Just please stop trying to science this to death, whatever makes it work how it was described works. I'm sure in a world of ftl and magic someone would figure out micro fission reactors
Edit: this is a semi serious rp right? TREAT IT LIKE ONE! I'm out for now this is too frustrating to have to get hard science right in a setup that has freaking spell casting.
//Physics does not change no matter how much science you have. And even magic must still obey physics to some extent. I had planned on the fire department showing up to continue soaking it after Danu ran out of water, but with the core material exposed it is now a deadly situation that would be suicide for a firefighter to respond to.
//A scifi setting with technology as advanced as they have in this storyline would have almost certainly come up with a far safer means of portable power than any sort of nuclear fission technology. Why would anyone develop such a dangerous tech further when safer alternatives exist?
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