Originally Posted by
ZenOps
I don't think China has the ability to produce materials that would be able to withstand those types of temperature and radiation variances for anything over a couple days, and still have it with movable joints. So I can imagine living creatures will not be happening for a few decades at least. Besides the idea that if you are heating the craft with nuclear decay, its probably not a good idea to have living tissue around.
I mean, there is literally no way around using six inches of lead to stop higher energy gamma.
USA always had an advantage in nuclear testing, including how much a human body could withstand.