Given what happens when the average Joe encounters a small, moveable, scrappable machine [1][2], I am pretty happy we never saw your nuclear washing machine-sized power plants...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...