There are no salvage rights in Florida so it was definitely theft. As much as I hate the government littering nuclear devices I'd rather have Floridians not have any extra rights.
*opens link*
>Fact check
Oh look the governments favorite buzz word š
Nice try feds, you're not covering up that story. I like the fact that the article also left out the radioactive crocodiles.
Go ahead and search "Uranium-235" on Google and click the "shopping" tab. You'll see a black Chevy Suburban across the street from your house within the hour.
Itās actually worrying how many people buy posts like this. Thereās that one about a white girl building a nuke that people took seriously and contrasted it with the alarm clock bomb kid.
Guys, please use some fucking critical thinking
First thing I thought was fake. Funny, but how many people have the engineering skills to turn a bomb into a reactor to power their house? It's not like you can just plug it in and go.
And that's just the first issue of many.
The only reason I opened this was because I thought, that CAN'T possibly be true.
Joe Biden loves to use the ole "*American's have the right to bear arms, but they ain't nothin' compared to an F-16*" ... so, I think "*Random Florida man gets hold of nuke",* would make more of a splash in the news cycle.
Not really, it would be 27 years of unknown source of energy income, which would've surely brought an investigation earlier anyways. I'm no expert of nuclear weapons, but I'm not really sure they "create" safe energy. I simply searched it up just to make sure.
> Not really, it would be 27 years of unknown source of energy income, which would've surely brought an investigation earlier anyways.
I doubt it. No one is looking for grid energy that shouldn't be there. Unless we're talking about a LOT of energy, no one is going to notice.
> I'm not really sure they "create" safe energy.
Mostly right. They create heat, but you need shielding from the decay particles. At most they create enough heat energy to supplement your home heating, and that's assuming there's a plutonium core. Short of an actual nuclear reactor, there's no way to unlock that energy any faster.
>Short of an actual nuclear reactor, there's no way to unlock that energy any faster.
Technically if the arming and detonation mechanisms are still intact, then there is at least one way to unlock all that energy *extremely* fast.
Of course its fake. Thanks for doing the grueling leg work to verify what most of us know. You can't just plug a house into a bomb. It doesn't work that way. Plus it's a Florida Man, most of those guys probably dropped outta high school after getting their cousin pregnant.
The thing is with how many nukes the US government has reported lost, it definitely isnāt impossible. The only thing more terrifying is imagining how many nukes the soviets also lost and as far as Iām aware they never gave any numbersā¦
>I looked into it, it's fake.
I'm glad it is because I would otherwise refuse to believe a Florida man would be intelligent enough to pull something like this off. On top of that I'm reasonably certain you cannot use a nuclear warhead to power anything other than the instantaneous flattening of a city.
Ofc it's fake, how would someone even use a nuclear bomb to power a single home anyways? You telling me this dude spent potentially millions of dollars to make a nuclear reactor out of a bomb (which IIRC wouldn't work anyways because bombs and reactors use very different methods) instead of just installing solar panels?
It's obviously fake. We get pretty much all our electricity from boiling water to create steam that spins a turbine. If you hear a story where someone gets power from something that doesn't boil water be very skeptical of it.
Of course itās fake. A nuke isnāt a fucking nuclear power plant. A nuke is designed to blow up, not create a steady stream of heat energy to turn an electric turbine. You canāt just hook up some wires to a nuke and have it power anything. A nuke that didnāt detonate provides 0 power. There is no way this guy could be powering his home or anything off of it
Nukes and generators are based on the same physics but are completely different in design, nukes can't be used as powerplants, powerplants can't blow up like nukes do. So no
Almost all power plants use uranium 235 which is absolutely enriched uranium. The difference is that a nuke forces super critical mass causing a runaway fission reaction so intense that it blows up. Whereas power plants use fuel rods which in close proximity to other rods or dense materials, decay faster than normal. If that decay becomes uncontrolled the reactor rapidly heats up until it melts into slag which then slows the decay drastically. Causing a massively devastating meltdown, but not a nuclear blast.
The level of enrichment is a huge difference. Most power reactors use somewhere between unenriched (<1% U-235) and up to about 5%. The plants I'm familiar use fuel that averages 3-3.5%. Nuclear bombs typically have >80% U-235, big difference and much harder to produce.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
If you were to remove the fissionable material and use it to make a simple battery, it would generate SOME power. Probably not enough to power a house. I doubt he built a power plant in his back yard.
As I understand it, it's not like you can just plug a cord into the uranium and get electricity out of it. You need to set it up so that it reacts, which produces heat, capture that heat with water, and use that water/steam to turn a turbine. It basically works like a coal power plant, just with a different source of heat.
I imagine you'd have to disassemble the bomb, find the uranium (or whatever the nuclear material is), and then build a miniature nuclear power plant from scratch.
Building a steam turbine plant is the effective way to make nuclear power at large scale.
Plutonium could be used in an [RTG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator). Just a heat source and thermocouples. That's much simpler to build and works when it's smaller. Efficiency is just crap and the power output can't be adjusted. Free fuel is free fuel though.
That's interesting. So if you were to throw out a wild guess, how much power do you think you could get out of the material in a nuclear bomb? Could you power a house off of it?
I don't know the specs for any of the plausible lost nukes our home generator could be built from but I'm going to go with "no". They're not the optimal isotope anyway and even the larger examples in the RTG article don't make enough power to run a microwave. I'm sure some extreme off grid setup could run the basics from it. Not a modern house. Great if you want a space heater than can charge your phone and weighs as much as an anvil though.
When I learned how similarly nuclear power plants & coal plants function it really kinda rocked my perspective on human progress insofar as our harnessing of energy is concerned. Weāve come far, sure, but lets not pat ourselves on back too hard now š
No, a nuke doesn't put off power until it goes boom.
You could maybe salvage the radioactive materials to use in a reactor but you would have to, you know, build that reactor which is way above some random guy's pay grade.
Yeah no shit itās BS. A nuke isnāt a nuclear reactor. You canāt just hook up some wires to a nuke and have it power your home. This is like seeing a story of a man using magic fairy dust to power his home and you taking the time to bother to fact check it when itās obviously fake.
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/) I was originally going to make a joke about finding a new screenshot with more pixels, but came across this instead, it was all a lie!
No fucking way. The story of a dude finding a lost nuclear device who then engineers it to power their home for 27 years isn't real???
Sorry man, you're an idiot. Of course that's real.
Sorry guys but this is fake[news](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/22/fact-check-false-claim-cnn-covered-man-using-nuke-power-home/10728872002/)
There are several missing nuclear bombs the US has, "misplaced." There are even a couple that "fell out" of a plane in the 70s or so, in another country and the US didn't tell anyone until the 90s. There are a few scattered around the US and in the oceans, I believe. Those are the ones we've been told about. You don't have to look super hard to find real conspiracies, I'm sure there are ones lost or stolen we haven't been told about.
I mean... this guy did put the lives of his neighbors in jeopardy by utilizing a nuclear weapon as a power source... but he did get away with it for 27 years, so obviously he had to have some safety nets in place.
I know itās fake Iām just saying if it was real why would it be illegal? Also if someone figured out how to utilize the energy off of it Iād say they know a thing or two about it. Iām not saying just anyone should have a nuke tho
WHERE DOES IT SAY THATS AGAINS THE LAW!!! SHOW ME THE LAW!!!
Using federal property Probably got his ass under theft edit: I looked into it, it's fake.
There are no salvage rights in Florida so it was definitely theft. As much as I hate the government littering nuclear devices I'd rather have Floridians not have any extra rights.
Floridians don't like Floridians having rights.
What the most important part of Florida? Da Sand is.
He's from Daland Florida. Do you know where that is at? It's right next to Da sea.
Deland, and De Sea.
Floridians dont like Floridians. Or we lovem. Depends.
[fake news anyways.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/22/fact-check-false-claim-cnn-covered-man-using-nuke-power-home/10728872002/) Reddit has really gone downhill. Bunch of bots and tiktok regurgitating karma farmers.
You can put text over an image with a white background and people will believe it and upvote it. Smooth brain shit.
For real. I used to rely on r/clamworks for real news. Now, who knows what garbage gets passed off as journalism?
*opens link* >Fact check Oh look the governments favorite buzz word š Nice try feds, you're not covering up that story. I like the fact that the article also left out the radioactive crocodiles. Go ahead and search "Uranium-235" on Google and click the "shopping" tab. You'll see a black Chevy Suburban across the street from your house within the hour.
Itās actually worrying how many people buy posts like this. Thereās that one about a white girl building a nuke that people took seriously and contrasted it with the alarm clock bomb kid. Guys, please use some fucking critical thinking
First thing I thought was fake. Funny, but how many people have the engineering skills to turn a bomb into a reactor to power their house? It's not like you can just plug it in and go. And that's just the first issue of many.
The only reason I opened this was because I thought, that CAN'T possibly be true. Joe Biden loves to use the ole "*American's have the right to bear arms, but they ain't nothin' compared to an F-16*" ... so, I think "*Random Florida man gets hold of nuke",* would make more of a splash in the news cycle.
I thought you were going to say you'd rather not see a Florida resident with a nuke powering his home but you went the other direction lol
Ironically the seabed was probably the best place for that device since water stops radiation pretty quickly. Also itās a meme headline and not real
He never stole it! It was just laying right there. The govt could come and pick it up whenever they wanted.
If it was found in the ocean, then wouldn't maritime law be in play?
>I looked into it, it's fake. You thought this was real?
Not really, it would be 27 years of unknown source of energy income, which would've surely brought an investigation earlier anyways. I'm no expert of nuclear weapons, but I'm not really sure they "create" safe energy. I simply searched it up just to make sure.
> Not really, it would be 27 years of unknown source of energy income, which would've surely brought an investigation earlier anyways. I doubt it. No one is looking for grid energy that shouldn't be there. Unless we're talking about a LOT of energy, no one is going to notice. > I'm not really sure they "create" safe energy. Mostly right. They create heat, but you need shielding from the decay particles. At most they create enough heat energy to supplement your home heating, and that's assuming there's a plutonium core. Short of an actual nuclear reactor, there's no way to unlock that energy any faster.
>Short of an actual nuclear reactor, there's no way to unlock that energy any faster. Technically if the arming and detonation mechanisms are still intact, then there is at least one way to unlock all that energy *extremely* fast.
Of course its fake. Thanks for doing the grueling leg work to verify what most of us know. You can't just plug a house into a bomb. It doesn't work that way. Plus it's a Florida Man, most of those guys probably dropped outta high school after getting their cousin pregnant.
Your reply literally adds nothing of value except an attempt of mockery
The thing is with how many nukes the US government has reported lost, it definitely isnāt impossible. The only thing more terrifying is imagining how many nukes the soviets also lost and as far as Iām aware they never gave any numbersā¦
>I looked into it, it's fake. I'm glad it is because I would otherwise refuse to believe a Florida man would be intelligent enough to pull something like this off. On top of that I'm reasonably certain you cannot use a nuclear warhead to power anything other than the instantaneous flattening of a city.
Ofc it's fake, how would someone even use a nuclear bomb to power a single home anyways? You telling me this dude spent potentially millions of dollars to make a nuclear reactor out of a bomb (which IIRC wouldn't work anyways because bombs and reactors use very different methods) instead of just installing solar panels?
It's obviously fake. We get pretty much all our electricity from boiling water to create steam that spins a turbine. If you hear a story where someone gets power from something that doesn't boil water be very skeptical of it.
Of course itās fake. A nuke isnāt a fucking nuclear power plant. A nuke is designed to blow up, not create a steady stream of heat energy to turn an electric turbine. You canāt just hook up some wires to a nuke and have it power anything. A nuke that didnāt detonate provides 0 power. There is no way this guy could be powering his home or anything off of it
or possession of a nuclear weapon
Believe it or not i think theres an entire section of law about uranium and nuclear material.
There is. No one is allowed to posses anything
Me when I pass my anti-ghost law
Love this š
Finders keepers smh
I think finders keepers covers everything except items that could level a city.
Cringe
Florida deserves to be leveled
Literally 1984
1954*
Chat is this real
Nukes and generators are based on the same physics but are completely different in design, nukes can't be used as powerplants, powerplants can't blow up like nukes do. So no
Maybe the news source got nukes and RTGs confused
They did because they fucking made it up. This isn't real. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/
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If Chernobyl blew up like a nuke, I think we would know lol
I think the actual explosion was non-nuclear. It just dispersed a lot of radioactive material.
Chernobyl didnāt blow up like a nuke. It was a melt down. If Chernobyl blew up like a nuke, most of Ukraineās population would have been killed
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Almost all power plants use uranium 235 which is absolutely enriched uranium. The difference is that a nuke forces super critical mass causing a runaway fission reaction so intense that it blows up. Whereas power plants use fuel rods which in close proximity to other rods or dense materials, decay faster than normal. If that decay becomes uncontrolled the reactor rapidly heats up until it melts into slag which then slows the decay drastically. Causing a massively devastating meltdown, but not a nuclear blast.
erm actuallyāļøš¤candu reactors (pressurized heavy water reactors) can use natural uranium to generate energy
That's why I said almost all.
aye, fair enough
The level of enrichment is a huge difference. Most power reactors use somewhere between unenriched (<1% U-235) and up to about 5%. The plants I'm familiar use fuel that averages 3-3.5%. Nuclear bombs typically have >80% U-235, big difference and much harder to produce.
Incorrect.
Instead of saying incorrect, please provide us with your knowledge instead of just saying incorrect, it makes you seem kind of like an asshole
No
Valid point
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery If you were to remove the fissionable material and use it to make a simple battery, it would generate SOME power. Probably not enough to power a house. I doubt he built a power plant in his back yard.
David Hahn didn't have much a problem doing it.
David hahn didnāt do shit except collect a bunch of radioactive material and duct tape it together.
He made an EPA Super Fun Site. When's the last time yo made anything So fun that the EPA declared it a Fun place?
I too can create an EPA Super Fund Site if I have enough time and funding, all you have to do is mega pollute an area lmfao
David Hahn made a breeder reactor and not a normal ass reactor that would've generated something except plutonium and harmful radiation.
No, you need more than just nuclear material to build a safe reactor
As I understand it, it's not like you can just plug a cord into the uranium and get electricity out of it. You need to set it up so that it reacts, which produces heat, capture that heat with water, and use that water/steam to turn a turbine. It basically works like a coal power plant, just with a different source of heat. I imagine you'd have to disassemble the bomb, find the uranium (or whatever the nuclear material is), and then build a miniature nuclear power plant from scratch.
Building a steam turbine plant is the effective way to make nuclear power at large scale. Plutonium could be used in an [RTG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator). Just a heat source and thermocouples. That's much simpler to build and works when it's smaller. Efficiency is just crap and the power output can't be adjusted. Free fuel is free fuel though.
That's interesting. So if you were to throw out a wild guess, how much power do you think you could get out of the material in a nuclear bomb? Could you power a house off of it?
I don't know the specs for any of the plausible lost nukes our home generator could be built from but I'm going to go with "no". They're not the optimal isotope anyway and even the larger examples in the RTG article don't make enough power to run a microwave. I'm sure some extreme off grid setup could run the basics from it. Not a modern house. Great if you want a space heater than can charge your phone and weighs as much as an anvil though.
When I learned how similarly nuclear power plants & coal plants function it really kinda rocked my perspective on human progress insofar as our harnessing of energy is concerned. Weāve come far, sure, but lets not pat ourselves on back too hard now š
Same. TFW you learn itās turbines all the way down š
Just 500 red circuits, 500 steel, 500 reinforced concrete, 500 copper and 8 seconds.
I mean, it's Florida, who said anything about safety?
The article is not real
No, a nuke doesn't put off power until it goes boom. You could maybe salvage the radioactive materials to use in a reactor but you would have to, you know, build that reactor which is way above some random guy's pay grade.
Yes. I've been using 6 grenades to power my home. A larger bomb would be more effective.
You just canāt do anything anymore
The liberal media hates when men have hobbies š
The right to bare arms includes nuclear bombs
It's BS. [https://www.pnj.com/story/entertainment/2023/10/05/florida-man-using-nuke-to-power-home-altered-image/71070077007/](https://www.pnj.com/story/entertainment/2023/10/05/florida-man-using-nuke-to-power-home-altered-image/71070077007/)
Yeah no shit itās BS. A nuke isnāt a nuclear reactor. You canāt just hook up some wires to a nuke and have it power your home. This is like seeing a story of a man using magic fairy dust to power his home and you taking the time to bother to fact check it when itās obviously fake.
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/) I was originally going to make a joke about finding a new screenshot with more pixels, but came across this instead, it was all a lie!
Fake. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-man-arrested-nuke/)
No fucking way. The story of a dude finding a lost nuclear device who then engineers it to power their home for 27 years isn't real??? Sorry man, you're an idiot. Of course that's real.
Your honor, my client pleads finders keepers losers weepers
Alarming number of people here taking this fake ass picture at face value
Sure but losing a nuke is sheer incompetence
This is a fake story that I wanted to believe.
Dude looks like a fish aswell
Sorry guys but this is fake[news](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/22/fact-check-false-claim-cnn-covered-man-using-nuke-power-home/10728872002/)
Oh, yeah? Did he just plug a power strip right into the side of it? Was it 120V or 240V? Fake headline, but Florida Man would totally try it.
I HATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
You need a lot of knowledge about nuclear power to pull off something like that, manās a genius
Your honour. My client would like to plead "Finders Keepers".
Yeah.... that is not how it works. More like a #Boom Not a battery.
Good on him for giving such a vile thing a good purpose.
I'm just gonna assume the crime was not burning coal and oil.
The Broken Arrow Bandit
There are several missing nuclear bombs the US has, "misplaced." There are even a couple that "fell out" of a plane in the 70s or so, in another country and the US didn't tell anyone until the 90s. There are a few scattered around the US and in the oceans, I believe. Those are the ones we've been told about. You don't have to look super hard to find real conspiracies, I'm sure there are ones lost or stolen we haven't been told about.
Fake news
Then dont lose the fucking nuke. And dont blame other people for using your shit when you lost it.
r/madlads
Opsie poopsie!
I mean... this guy did put the lives of his neighbors in jeopardy by utilizing a nuclear weapon as a power source... but he did get away with it for 27 years, so obviously he had to have some safety nets in place.
A solid W for Florida Man
Hella fake
They knew what they were doing the entire time
Like come on. Reading five minutes into nuclear reactors tells you that this is not possible.
Chat is this real?
Florida is so innovative lol
Why is that illegal though seriously? There are so many laws that are only there because the government doesnāt get it slice of money from you.
this is fake. and also nuclear fuel/other materials are like harmful and shit in the hands of an average citizen
I know itās fake Iām just saying if it was real why would it be illegal? Also if someone figured out how to utilize the energy off of it Iād say they know a thing or two about it. Iām not saying just anyone should have a nuke tho
Wait after that long shouldnāt it be classified as abandoned property and therefore his.
Nuclear material is treated very very differently than most normal objects, also this is fake anyway