[generalhammond]

Fantastic idea, especially for small remote areas (eg central Australia) currently using diesel generators. One problem - ISLAM ie Islamic nutbags opening them up and turning them into weapons.

[aruanan]

Fantastic idea, especially for small remote areas (eg central Australia) currently using diesel generators. One problem - ISLAM ie Islamic nutbags opening them up and turning them into weapons.

How in the world do you think this could possibly be turned into a weapon in any way more substantial than a car can be turned into a weapon by driving it into a crowd? No nuclear reactor can be made into a nuclear weapon without so much involved work that you may as well make one from scratch and look how much effort (North Korea, Iran) that takes. If you had a graphite core, you could have a radioactive fire (a la Chernobyl). If you had a build-up of hydrogen gas, you could have an explosion of the gas. But the nuclear fuel in a power reactor won't explode under any circumstances.