Nuclear

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Types of Nuclear Systems In Confederacy Use

The Confederacy has fusion reactors in wide use not only for electric power generation, but also for shipboard power systems. One mention is in "Pretty CAPable" but there are many others. These seem to use deuterium in a fusion reaction, perhaps initiated by a high-powered laser in some sort of sci-fi "Cold fusion" development. Power generators are much smaller and less resource-intensive than current-day Tokamak reactors, which are not yet net-energy productive.

There is also a mention of antimatter systems in Some Assembly Required by Nuke Danger, 3rd Aye but it refers to weapons.

Story Usage

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-22 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.07 (9/21/2019) identified the following top ten usage counts for Fusion Reactor:

• Pretty CAPable by Kenn Ghannon 8 instances.
• RCAF by lordshipmayhem 7 instances.
• Chosen Frozen by lordshipmayhem 5 instances.
• Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 4 instances.
• Rosencrantz And Guildenstern by lordshipmayhem 4 instances.
• Family Letters by Allan Joyal 3 instances.
• Destination Azahar by deGaffer 2 instances.
• The Librarian by deGaffer 2 instances.
• Glowing Recommendations by Just Jack 1 instances.
• Independent Command by Zen Master 1 instances.

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-22 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.07 (9/21/2019) identified the following usage counts for Antimatter:

• Some Assembly Required by Nuke Danger, 3rd Aye 1 instances.
• Victoria Per Scientiam by SGTStoner 1 instances.

Safety and Reliability

Confederacy power generation systems are under the control of the AIs which ensure safe and reliable operation. No safety issues have been spoken of in Canon stories.

Story Usage

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following top ten usage counts for Nuclear:

• The First Command by Zen Master 14 instances.
• Ending This Mess by Zen Master 11 instances.
• Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 9 instances.
• Maquis by starfiend 9 instances.
• Chosen Frozen by lordshipmayhem 5 instances.
• The Enemy Within by Frostfyre 5 instances.
• We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers by LughIldanach 4 instances.
• Behind Enemy Lines by deGaffer 3 instances.
• Camp Mercury by Zipper D Dude 3 instances.
• Glowing Recommendations by Just Jack 3 instances.

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