The original post: /r/askscience by /u/Jefflenious on 2024-11-10 13:34:27.

This might be slightly political, I live in Iran and as you might’ve heard Iran’s been claiming to “develop their nuclear program” for a few years now

From what I’ve seen/heard, nuclear weapons use the depleted resources of a nuclear reactor which is supposed to produce insane amounts of power, but meanwhile Iran is really struggling with their power production and there seems to be no trace of any nuclear power production anywhere (Could be wrong)

Now ofc a lot of stuff could be happening that we don’t know but my question basically is: Is it possible to efficiently develop nuclear weapons without going after nuclear reactors? Does it make sense in terms of economics? Because we’ve at least been expecting the energy crisis to end after this whole nuclear deal