Iran to unveil 'great nuclear achievements'

[deskpro2k3]

Vertigo-X said:

deskpro2k3 said:

instead of using nuke as a weapon, is it possible they're making it for good of man kind? a form of cheaper energy mayhaps?

No, at the moment it is not possible to collect the energy from a nuclear blast an make electricity with it. The explosion itself is already incredibly destructive and thus the yield would have to be incredibly tiny (less than a ton or 0.001 KT of TNT equivalent I'd surmise). Let's not even get into the radiative output of a supercitical mass of SNM.

 

The current method of energy production from nuclear fission fuel is the basic boiler-turbine design. It's still pretty limited though.

 

I understand all that moko-jumbo stuff you're saying I do, but all I said in my original comment was they could be developing a cheaper form of energy. Nuclear power is cost competitive with other forms of electricity generation.