Mike Sales wrote: ↑4 Aug 2021, 11:39am
Jdsk wrote: ↑4 Aug 2021, 11:17am
and what is about military interactions.
Jonathan
Iran's uranium enrichment activity unnerved Israel enough to provoke sabotage, and in 1981 they bombed an Iranian reactor.
Will "rogue states" have to forgo nuclear electricity?
One, North Kprea already has the bomb.
Israel has nuclear weapons, of course,.
India and Pakistan, have already fought wars and both have the bomb.
If nuclear power spreads will nuclear bombs proliferate?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Nuc ... liferation
Your link doesn't seem to work.
But this, hopefully working version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_p ... liferation makes the point that:
The vast majority of these nuclear weapons states have produced weapons before commercial nuclear power stations.
So it appears the opposite movement is true, nuclear weapons -> nuclear power, rather than the nuclear power -> nuclear weapons, as you seem to be suggesting.
In fact, later in the same section
However, without an increase in nuclear reactors and greater demand for fissile fuel, the cost of dismantling and down blending has dissuaded Russia from continuing their disarmament.
It looks like we need nuclear reactors to help get rid of nuclear weapons.
Turning reactor grade material into weapons grade material seems to be a fantastically difficult and time-consuming process, as Iran has learnt. And even when or if they manage it, the number of weapons they manage to produce will be small. Nowhere near the amount that are needed for the full scale MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) that cold war nuclear arms were based upon.
The strong linking of nuclear power with nuclear arms in the popular imagination has done a great deal of harm to the progress towards low carbon electricity generation.
It's worth pointing out that over the past 30 years or so, the world stockpile of nuclear weapons has reduced by about 80%. That may not have reduced the risk of any of them being used. But it has certainly reduced the risk of the "total annihilation of humanity" that is such a popular theme whenever the subject is raised.