Nuclear reactors are by the way also used not just for domestic electricity production but to power some submarines and ships in particular the icebreaker ones that travel across frozen sea ice
en.wikipedia.org
Most other things which are used to generate electricity or propel a vehicle, especially when it is to do with heat and thermodynamics can also be used to blow something up.
For example, if you made a fire with coal and heated up a very strong closed steel container half filled with water, you would also get a powerful explosion. Ordinarily in a coal power station that steam would be used to drive a turbine but you could also use it to create a destructive shockwave or at the very least, fast flying metal shrapnel.
Similarly if you took the petrol that goes in a car, say a cup of it, poured it out in the boot on a hot summers day, gave it time in there to evaporate then sparked the fuel air mixture in the boot you could also generate a destructive explosion.
Not sure Paternos believes nuclear power is real though?
In all purely chemical reactions, mass is conserved. The weight of the ashes and smoke is the same as the weight of the fuel and air. In a nuclear reaction some mass 'disappears' and is converted directly to energy.
There is some analysis here of the rate of consumption of uranium in a nuclear reactor :
Fuel Consumption of Conventional Reactor. Annual uranium consumption of the nuclear reactor is about 25 tonnes of enriched uranium or about 250 tonnes of natural uranium.
www.nuclear-power.com
MWe means megawatts of electrical power, MWt means megawatts of thermal energy
It says that a 3000MWt nuclear reactor uses about 3 kg of fuel per day whereas a 1000MWe coal power station uses 10 000 000 kg of coal per day. Yes there might be some small differences here with thermal energy vs electrical energy but essentially the nuclear one has fuel that would fit on a table top whereas the coal one sound more like a train with several carriages.
Is it then no wonder that a nuclear bomb only takes a relatively tiny amount of uranium or plutonium to do its work.
Similar statistics are listed on that page for the power station, the actual amount of matter that disappears each year after being transformed into energy is tiny, like about 1kg.
Many things in physics or the technical world are quite hard to accept. There have been experiments already a century ago or more to measure the speed of light or measure gravitation between celestial bodies, it proves the point but is very abstracted away from what we perceive. Then even modern technology like the density of circuitry in chips is hard to imagine.
I'm not the boss here but this thread is bordering the absolutely ridiculous. I'm also getting a strong vibe we may be dealing with a troll or a glow drone. Don't we have bigger things to worry about?
It is a bit of a waste of time. Hope
@paternos is not losing touch with reality, I've seen him post about wars we see on television in the middle east all being staged. Be careful, once a person loses their sanity and grip on reality it may not come back, is not something to play around with.
discussion of nukes being fake gets added to the banned topic list.
Would be happy to see no atomic bomb denial, satellite denial or moon landing denial. No flat Earth discussion. On the one hand, radical free speech but on the other hand like moths to a lightbulb it will attract all kinds of strange characters and more normal posters may get drowned out or withdraw.
Big brother loves you.
They are mocking us.. USS Enterprise is real too right?
