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What would happen to nuclear power plants, in the event a Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam would hit them?



On my reading, the paper envisages that bombs will be destroyed by "cooking" the conventional explosive shell untilit explodes chaoticly [sp?]. In the event that the bomb's fissionable core is stored separately from the conventional shell, then it might induce the fissionable material to melt.

So I guess that if you targeted a reactor, you could induce a meltdown, given enough time-on-target.




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