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rocket:
for lgsracer.... the nuclear subs ran hot... 98 percent U235 compared to a commerical reactor that runs only 1.5% U235. must have been hard working on the sub with 4 foot concrete walls around the reactor (joking of course).

what happened to chernobyl is a lie... our government tricked them into running metallic uranium (all the easier to get metallic plutonium for bombs). the dumb potatoe farmers didnt take into consideration that the uranium would oxidize U + h2o = U0 + h2 when the free hydrogen reached about four percent all it took was a spark. nothing more than a hydrogen explosion

nuclear is safe, plentiful, renewable (when making plutonium from inert U238, U238 +N double beta (-e) decay over about 45 minutes = plutonium which is 8 times the energy as U235) and produces highly valuable isotopes.

lgsracer:
Yes the reactors on subs use enriched uranium so they can go twenty years without refueling. The shielding is same as when they ran a more standard mix and had to be refueled every 8 to 10 years. Radiation is about the same remember time, distance shielding. The hottest thing I was ever around was the warhead on a subroc http://subroc.quickseek.com/. Missile launched nuclear depth bomb. Junior guys had to sleep in the torpedo room, where we kept the things, I slept over the warhead area. 34 millirem per hour on the warhead surface. Before they phased them out, they started installing lead sheets around the warhead or keeping them in the torpedo tubes. Damn things but out a lot of fast neutrons as well.

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