Essentially, once you get the fuel rods refined, you're just pushing them close together in an armoured shell and using cadmium rods to stop a runaway reaction.
Are you being intentionally ignorant?
"Rocket science" covers all aspects of rocketry and space travel, moron.
No, the guidance system is in many places now, not just rockets, you have one in your car or smart-phone.
See Ahmed thread.WELL, technically, they can be built by lay people. So can nuclear reactors. A kid did that a few years ago. Yes, a kid. It could be done, I guess. But I doubt you'll find an 80% kit for one
The kid that built the reactor got his fuel by busting open smoke detectors if I remember right.
Fission doesn't "make new elements", it breaks U235 down into smaller elements due to the fission that occurs.
The story I remember was that he built it at home and stored it there for a couple days then became alarmed at the levels of radiation rising and put it in the trunk and drove around trying to figure out what to do lol. Cops pulled him over and he immediately notified them what was in the trunk.
