RadiomanATL
Senior Member
More than the BIG H-Bombs?To where?
Same place 100+ atmospheric detonations went?
The site would be vaporized. Fissionable material, vaporized. It would go into atmosphere and be carried off into the ocean by the winds.
I'm not talking using a H-Bomb, or even one of our big ones. Just a mid-sized tactical nuke. No massive mushroom cloud, just enough destructive power to clear the site and carry the particulates off into the ocean we've also detonated warheads in dozens of times.
Compared to the damage this plant has the potential to do?
You haven't given this much thought.
Except that you are adding a whole lot more fissile material from the reactors into the detonation than any other nuke test has ever done before, as far as I can tell.
I know, lots of variables in this particular equation.
H-bombs increase the size of the bang via tritium injected into the core at the moment of implosion. Not by using more fissile material.
In your scenario a whole lot more fissile material is being used. In an H-bomb, a larger bang injects a whole lot of vaporized material into the upper stratosphere and effectively away from living things. There it dissipates enough over all of the stratosphere before eventually falling back to earth.
In your scenario with a much, much smaller bang, all the nuclear material will not be spread out nearly as far, or nearly as high. Effectively it will turn a much larger area into a wasteland than if they just sat back and did nothing.
Just MO though.