"Nuclear reactors don't blow up on account of the safeguards, which [were] disabled, so it makes sense, see? It's just like if somebody went and disabled all the safeguards on your, uh, toaster. Boom."
— Elliot Toman responds to reader questions about a reactor Going Critical in Westward.
"[N]uclear reactors don't explode. An atom bomb works by taking a subcritical mass of a fissile material and using an extremely precise array of explosives to compress it into a supercritical mass. Reactors don't do this. They use a fissile material to heat water into steam which powers a normal-ass steam turbine. A reactor will never go supercritical."
— SsethTzeentach in his review of Hardspace: Shipbreaker
