How do i build a nuclear reactor?

Princeton

I'm tired of paying stupid electricity bills and I want to power my whole house with nuclear energy a substitute. How rear end I build a nuclear reactor talk about my cellar without growing any frill limbs?



Hitchcock

omg It is so easy!! go rent the movie The Manhattan Project. they show you how to build it!!



Newbern

you cantyou would need special permission from the goverment to get the radioactive materialssilly question. go green. go solar.



Millhousen

YA RIGHT..........Dream big.



Minnehaha

furst u wil need a lot of concreat. Once you get like a million pounds of that u wil need som unanium. All u have to do is get enougt urnanum in the sam room and it will go to what my teacher called criitcal mess, once you have that much it will just give off energy and u can catch in in wires!



Wilson

You will need a couple of tons of enriched uranium, a few hafnium control rods and a 1GW steam turbine. Call your local plumber for assembly of the cooling system. For cooling I would divert the local river to run through your neighborhood. Just flood the whole darn place. Easy. Everyone can do it. :-)



Crawford

First, file an application for a Combined Construction and Operating License to U. S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a leading proponent of nuclear power in America. By the way is your basement not seismically active?



Lyons

Call the local FBI and ask them for the parts... I'm sure they will send someone around to tell you all about it. You have never SEEN a nuclear reactor, have you?



Shinnecock Hills

A do-it-yourself nuclear generator? Well, first you need a heat engine. I recommend a stirling engine. Then you need radioactive materials. Try americium; you can get it from smoke detectors. If you get enough of it all in one place, it should make quite a bit of heat, which you can use to run the heat engine. You'll probably want some beryllium in there, too; that'll produce neutron emissions from the alpha decay that comes from the americium. Much more radioactive that way, and thus it may produce much more heat. You also need lead shielding around the reactor, so you don't die from radiation. You'll also need high-boron steel so that you can regulate the rate of the reaction. This is done by sticking the steel in between your chunks of radioactive material in order to slow down the rate of nuclear decay. ...but seriously, don't try it. You'll die. And you'll get arrested. Not necessarily in that order, though. If you want free electricity, get some solar cells. It's simple, and ultimatley a lot less expensive. And you won't die. Or get arrested.



Jan Phyl Village

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Tonganoxie

In which country do you live???Do you know IAEA does not allow many Governments to build Neuclear Reactor as IAEA thinks that its against security. Who would allow YOU???



Hamden

Somewhat surprisingly (to me anyway) americium (the stuff used in some smoke detectors) is fissile. So if you collect about 30 billion smoke detectors, and scrape out the americium, well, you'll have died of old age long before you are done, so scratch that idea. "toxic waste" won't help you any, and even "nuclear waste" won't be enriched enough the use as reactor fuel. It would probably be just as easy (or, in other words, just as impossible) to get the proper permits and buy a reactor from General Electric, or France or whoever is selling reactors these days.



Quincy

The US military has portable nuclear generating stations since the mid-1960s. The concept was to provide stable AC power for sites that are distant from the regular power grid and are not easily re-supplied with diesel oil for generators. They were deployed in Vietnam, but then the other problem came up. Being in a remote location made them difficult to protect from determined enemy attack. duh. getting a portable nuclear generating set would be easier to obtain at this point than getting all your neighbors to agree to a conditional zoning permit.