08-08-2016, 04:31 PM
(08-08-2016, 04:29 PM)OdinYggd Wrote:(08-08-2016, 04:14 PM)Rahizel Wrote: Because.
Also a small portable reactor blowing should not be a disaster, it'd be like a firework rocket going boom.
A nuclear device of any kind experiencing a meltdown is world in crisis with permanent toxic side effects. Do your research before you throw these things around.
What you've written in RP is on the same level as what happened at Chernobyl wherein a core breach has happened and the surrounding area must be evacuated for the next 65,000 years before the radiation levels return to safe values.
Obviously we're going to cheat that recovery time using the terraforming device, but Acroma, Comito, and I all have dead characters now because they've unavoidably been exposed to lethal amounts of radiation from the exposed core material.
The only way I could make a reasonable recovery of this mess is if the core stayed contained inside the unit and only melted down. This puts it on the level of 3 mile island, people still live near that thing. Point of fact, 3 mile island is still powered to this day. Core #2 on TMI melted down and was dismantled following the accident, but TMI Core #1 still operates regularly generating electricity for the city of Harrisburg PA.
This is what it looks like! This is Three Mile Island, photographed by me about 3 years ago. The domed structure on the left is the empty containment from Unit #2, while the dome on the right is the still-active Unit #1. According to the NRC status page, TMI #1 was at 100% capacity when I took these pictures.
That's for reactors that power cities, not that only put out enough juice to power a prius.
Please don't get ahead of everything here alright? You're jumping to multiple conclusions.
The amount of material used in such a small reactor is something you could lift, like the amount that goes into an RTG.