The second project entailed making a nuclear-powered AK-47. Early prototypes of this were hard to carry, as the 100-pound nuclear reactor had to be strapped to the soldier's back. After numerous attempts to reduce the size of the reactor, the management stepped in. The solution was to take a normal AK-47, add a rod of uranium to it, paint it green, and call it nuclear-powered. Not many citizens knew the difference, but when the news was leaked to the Western media, there was a near-simultaneous 5 minutes of hysterical laughter resulting from the news.