Seems to me like any nuclear facility can masquerade as a power plant or weapons plant. They can do both. The byproduct of nuclear power plants is stuff like depleted uranium which is used in ammunition.
Most depleted uranium arises as a by-product of the production of enriched uranium for use as fuel in nuclear reactors and in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Think about the implications...
Your enemy has a nuclear power plant. You want to destroy it. That will cut off power to thousands of civilians. What do you do? Convince your nation in the media that it's a nuclear weapons plant. (Similar to Iran and the Stuxnet virus that destroyed their facility)
Or consider the situation in reverse. You have a nuclear weapons plant at the border of Russia. You claim its a power plant.
Pretty convenient to have this kind of advanced facility that "maybe kills people" or "maybe keeps people alive". And with this gray area, a sheepish public is easy to manipulate in regards to environmental protection, nuclear waste, war, etc. The Schrodinger's cat of facilities.
Seems to me like any nuclear facility can masquerade as a power plant or weapons plant. They can do both. The byproduct of nuclear power plants is stuff like depleted uranium which is used in ammunition.
Think about the implications...
Your enemy has a nuclear power plant. You want to destroy it. That will cut off power to thousands of civilians. What do you do? Convince your nation in the media that it's a nuclear weapons plant. (Similar to Iran and the Stuxnet virus that destroyed their facility)
Or consider the situation in reverse. You have a nuclear weapons plant at the border of Russia. You claim its a power plant.
Pretty convenient to have this kind of advanced facility that "maybe kills people" or "maybe keeps people alive". And with this gray area, a sheepish public is easy to manipulate in regards to environmental protection, nuclear waste, war, etc. The Schrodinger's cat of facilities.