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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by atupis on Sunday May 26, 2019 @02:50AM (#20013517)
There is also realpolitik reason why it would not happen. widespread fission reactors means more countries have access to nuclear weapons.
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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by godelski on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:22AM (#20013976)
This is a very common misnomer. Mainly because weapons require so much more enriched uranium. Enrichment plants have to be much bigger. A size difference you can usually tell just from satellite imagery.
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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by pfdietz on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:23AM (#20094268)
Nuclear weapons can be built with plutonium, not enriched uranium. And plutonium from power reactors can be used, although it's not ideal.
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Re:100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the... by _Tev on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:32AM (#20014009)
There's an order of magnitude difference between enrichment levels for reactors and for nuclear weapons. It's like saying that any nation with orbital rockets can throw asteroids at you.
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