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Wait, you're proposing to create an unfettered dictatorship with access to nuclear technology? And you think everyone will be fine with that?


You'd be fine. Just let the inspectors in and be super-transparent. Plenty of people have research reactors, and if you aren't a belligerent theocracy, you shouldn't have much of a problem. Just play nice.


Micro nuclear reactors don't have weapons grade uranium/plutonium in large quantities, AFAIK at best they could be used to build a dirty bomb. And what would be the point of that ? I'm not proposing building a religious sect, just a society of hand picked individuals from different fields, like engineering, natural sciences, architecture, arts etc.


My undergraduate institution (Reed College) has a student operated nuclear reactor on campus. No weapons grade nuclear material, and it wouldn't make a very good dirty bomb either. However, it's useful for bombarding things with neutrons and it does give off a pretty blue light because of Cherenkov radiation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Research_Reactor.


Reminds me somewhat of the "rapture" city in the game bioshock.


Hopefully it would be a boring, mutant free version :)




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