On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:13:25PM +0100, Onno Meyer wrote:
>Part of the problem is the assumption that antimatter power plants 
>hold fuel for five years. If you cut it down to just a few days of
>endurance, each MW does 0.01 kt if the reactor explodes. A small 
>grav vehicle could have 2 MW, a big one 30 or 50 MW. Still enough
>to wreck your neighbourhood.

While this isn't part of the rules, I gather that the people trying to
design antimatter bombs in the real world have found that it's much
easier to get a fizzle, an energy release over the span of seconds or
minutes, than an actual explosion. More of a big hot fire than a bomb.

R
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