Things TLs 7-9 would be interesting to see WITHOUT

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

I don't think that's really how it went. We did have nuclear bombs before nuclear power plants, but I think that's got more to do with the technology arising on the way into WWII, and all the early reactors thus being either for research or military plutonium production.

If I'm reading right, a nuclear pile intended to generate power was patented in 1934...

Huh. So it's really not that crazy an idea at all, then? If you're correct, we invented nuclear power before we invented the nuclear bomb.