Re: Orion Drive space battleship
nuclear reactors for general energy use and nuclear (explosives) devices are two completely different animals
When a reactor like Chernobyl "blows" it's a 'conventional' and very 'dirty' explosion that spreads alot of "unspent" radioactive material around
When a nuclear "bomb" goes off it "spends" most of the radioactive material, the remainder is a very small fraction of the warhead
Orion would use the bombs, for the long-term effects of the things Orion would use, just visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both cities not only have been rebuilt, but are larger, more populous and more prosperous than in 1945.
