Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons
by IdeaHamstir on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:52AM
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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
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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.