How far would radiation from an exclusion zone spread?
I'm working on a story where in 1983 the world went to full on global war and all nuclear power plants blew up either under nuclear fire or by losing power.I know about the general 30km exclusion zone...
View ArticleCould a neutron-slowing field render neutron-induced nuclear fission weapons...
Let's say that, for some reason, producing a certain type of field causes all free neutrons with a kinetic energy greater than 100 kEV to spontaneously emit visible-spectrum photons and lose the...
View ArticleWhy do the nations in my world use tactical nuclear weapons but not strategic...
Exactly what it says on the tin: why do the nuclear bomb-having nations in my world use tactical nuclear weapons but not strategic ones while still having both?They're not launching ICBMs at one...
View ArticleCan we fulfill the world electricity production by nuclear power? [closed]
Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. In today's world has 450 commercial nuclear power reactors operable in 30...
View ArticleHow to explore a radioactive wasteland with mostly low tech equipment? [closed]
I'm writing a story based on people trapped in a city which has had multiple nuclear bombs set off in it, and so has some very irradiated reason. The people in it have slightly more advanced than...
View ArticleWith modern-day/near-future (i.e. potentially realizable within 20 years)...
I'm writing about a nuclear-powered tank. Yes, I know about what the problems associated with it are. No, the people in the setting don't care about radioactive contamination of their environment, or...
View ArticleHow weight and volume-efficient can you make a high-yield nuclear weapon for...
Let's say that we need a nuke that can fit into a very small space while also providing a very large boom.Now, the US's B-41 nuclear bomb was quite mass-efficient indeed; it put out 22 petajoules, or...
View ArticleCould you freeze a nuclear explosion [closed]
The character who I'm talking about is faced with certain death and has to freeze a nuclear exposition that's coming right at him, would this work, and how would it. This character has ice-based powers...
View ArticleIs it possible for a creature to exist as a biological nuclear reactor?
This is somewhat different to this question on the possibility of biological fusion reactors as I am curious if a living FISSION reactor is more plausible.
View ArticleUnforeseen Consequences of Limiting Nuclear Fission
From my understanding nuclear fission takes place in two different scenarios and correlates with the speed of a neutron. In terms of material, we have fissionable material which undergo nuclear fission...
View ArticleIs there a metric for how far underground a nuclear bomb needs to be to...
I'm running a one-shot cold war campaign where the PCs are going to sabotage a prototype Soviet giga-ton bomb. Realistically, how far underground would a giga-ton bomb have to be buried to be safely...
View ArticleIndustrial scale Tritium production from Helium3?
Currently Tritium is produced by neutron bombardment of Lithium. I was looking into alternatives and learned that Helium3 has a rather large cross section for reacting with thermal neutrons. From what...
View ArticleWhat would happen to nuclear missiles left to rot post-apocalypse? [duplicate]
A sudden cataclysm takes place. The human race is all but wiped away. And the nukes in their bunkers and silos are left to rot for 800 years before anyone finds a record of them. What has happened to...
View ArticleWould increasing the stability of nuclei have other side effects than just...
I'm writing a short story where humanity lives in a section of the universe that's causing the nuclei to be unstable.To explain what I mean, we here have hydrogen, deuterium and tritium where hydrogen...
View ArticleBest places to be on Earth when an all out nuclear World War III breaks out?
This is a world building question in a preventative context because those people or countries would be left fully functional while others are gone and the safe areas are where the world building would...
View ArticleHow many power plants could plausibly be built in a given, relatively small...
For e.g. how many nuclear plants could be built in a 1000sq.km area?How many gas/coal/oil plants could be co-located in a small area? Etc.
View ArticleHow early could we have had nukes?
Suppose a message was sent to the past with a diagram, description, and use, of the simplest fission weapon.It didn't describe how to mine Uranium, enrich it, or even a description of WHY it works or...
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How close can I get to a nuclear explosion with extreme shielding?
Imagine you are in empty space, and a 15 megaton nuclear bomb is very close to you (D=200 meters), but what's also very close to you is a giant (Tungsten?) cylinder (2? meters in diameter, 100? meters...
View ArticleHow would an alien race destroy all nuclear weapons on earth? [closed]
An alien race has decided that earth is the best place to recruit new soldiers and prepare for a war, and they want to eliminate all nuclear weapons (explosive ones, not dirty bombs) to prevent...
View ArticleNuclear Piston Engine - Is it possible?
While researching unique methods of nuclear energy generation and propulsion, I encountered many things, both in rocketry and aerospace. For instance, the nuclear thermal jet engine. However, I found...
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