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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by mikeash on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:40AM (#16492324)
They also couldn’t figure out how to test it. Once you turn it on, you can’t stop it, and if you lose control it could go anywhere on the planet.
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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by Santosh83 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:42AM (#16492344)
Can you not stop it by sending it commands to turn off the reactor?
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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by mikeash on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:45AM (#16492367)
Then it’ll crash and you’ll have a nice Chernobyl to deal with.
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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by IdeaHamstir on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:52AM (#16492435)
Several orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl. The reactor that lost containment was a gigawatt production plant. A gigawatt nuclear ramjet would be so huge there would be no trouble detecting it and shooting it down near the launch site.
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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by mikeash on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:04AM (#16492523)
Most of Chernobyl’s material stayed in the reactor, though. A hypersonic crash would disperse a much bigger proportion of the material. I don’t know how the two factors balance out exactly.
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Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons by bbatha on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:19PM (#16495839)
Just crash it into the ocean, sea water is an excellent neutron moderator.
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