What would a nuclear castle look like?

>>48343905
How about you describe what the fuck you actually mean first?

>>48344047

Imagine a nuclear-powered castle my friend.

>>48344091
Cheyenne mountain?

>>48344218

Could this mountain castle hold off an army of Goblins?

>>48344230
With its atomic powered missiles it can!

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>>48343905

>>48343905
He'd be breaking up inside.

what is the nuclear power used for and what technology level are we talking about?

Full modern? Well essentially you have an underground military headquarter and possibly missile silo which uses a nuclear reactor to generate power, bit older a fortification ring resembling the maginot line defenses with again a nuclear reactor as power source

Full medieval? Castle build over a naturally occurring nuclear reactor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor), possibly a local stream or river diverted into the fissile ore to keep it supplied with water, then several uses of heated but toxic water either for a form of central heating (roman style) and maybe permanently heated moat as defense and ready supply of barrels of boiling water to use as defense during sieges

More fantasy like? Well you have the same naturally occurring reactor but instead the castle build above it is very steampunk in nature with the reactor providing a shitload of free steam to power all sorts of contraptions, bonus points for actually using the "punk" aspect by having a bunch of serfs locked up in the caverns maintaining the reactor and dying at age 40 from various tumors

Balls to the wall? Nuclear powered railguns firing readily available depleted uranium rods

>>48343905
Man, woman, two kids, rifles for everyone.

>>48344507
Underrated

But irradiated

>>48344091
It makes electricity and they have access to modern materials and technologies so its a castle with modern materials and technologies.

I think you need to come up with something else.

>>48344902
well there's the rare natural version >>48344814, which admittedly would be virtually impossible to coexist with humans on our planet, but hey that's what fantasy is for right? Doesn't always have to be outright magic

>>48343905
Like a regular castle, but with a pale blue glow.

>>48344284
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2UPb-yGG7s

>>48344047
If you're on this board, I'd hope you'd have enough imagination to imagine that yourself. Else I don't know what you're doing in tabletop games.

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>>48343905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9IZVWGD6Xk

I CAST A DEADLY SHADOW

The drawbridge would go up and down really quickly.

>>48344091
Ok, it looks like a well lit castle......woooo fucking hoooo

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>Nuclear castle
Hmm...a castle holds troops that can attack the enemy nearby and maintain a military hold on the surrounding countryside, so....

>Nuclear reactor
Usually drives a steam turbine, so ...electricity? Steam cannons? Steam elementals of especially great power? (mixing fantasy and modern here)

>Electric motorcycles and vehicles
Okay, so you've got special squads of fast-moving dragoons on electric motorcycles to attack and break the lines of the enemy formations.
>steam weapons
Steam-powered catapults, scorpions and mangonels on the parapets. No end to the supply of steam. Of course, there are steam jets in the gates and tunnels

>electric dynamos
There are tesla coils in defensive positions around the castles that spark lightning on those who get near

>Steam elemental
An elder steam elemental has become impressed by this unequaled source on this planet, and has made the dungeon its home. In return for more mechanical secrets of steam, and an agreement to help defend the castle, the elemental keeps the turbines operating efficiently. This creature glows blue with Cherenkov radiation.

>steam catapult
Can launch gliders for airborne reconnaisance.

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>>48344814

Lovely post

>>48345122
Only if it's underwater. Cerenkov radiation happens when charged particles move faster than the phase speed of light in water.

>>48343905
Two keeps, one and a half towers and a carriage

Howl's Moving Castle would be a good start.

Look at the descriptions of the Castles of the Knight Households in Warhammer 40k.

>>48343905
>What would a nuclear castle look like?
Glowing bright green?

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>>48352799
You mean blue?

>>48352830
>>48352799
Where did it glowing green come from?

>>48353344
One of the first widespread applications of radium was luminescence - self-powered lighting. For instance, Radium Dials or clock faces were popular, as they glowed in the dark. These materials convert the kinetic energy of radioactive decay (and subsequent ionization) into visible light. If you combine a radioactive source with the right phosphor, then electrons which were knocked away from their atoms will emit visible light when they fall back into an orbital. Zinc sulfide doped with copper was a common choice for the phosphor component in the early 1900's, which glows green.

>>48353344
Stupidity, basically. People most likely saw radium based paint which glows green and assumed radioactive automatically equals a green glow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium#Luminescent_paint

>>48347452
What I imagine and what op intends are two completely different things.

>>48344091
It would look like a castle. If it looked like anything else it would be a nuclear powered whatever thing that is.

It's like a castle... but with a nuclear generator somewhere. That enough for ya?

>>48343905
It would be standing
on the edge
of a crater

>>48343905
>>48344902
It would look like the fortresses at Liege or Antwerp. Unfortunately I can't find a good picture, but you should research them a bit. They were some of the very last fortresses truly designed to hold a permanent position. They did a pretty damn good job of it in early WWI (and cost Germany the war; they stalled the German surprise attack for weeks until railroads were constructed into Belgium to bring in artillery), but by the end of the war it was clear that siege weapons had far outstripped the ability to build better walls, which is why there are no modern castles.