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Weapons-grade uranium.
by chronial 11y ago
Weapons-grade uranium.
- kjs3 11y agoStop enriching before it gets to weapons grade purity and it's fuel for a reactor. Fail.
- chronial 11y agoI'm no expert on the topic, but I think you need essentially different tools and technology to reach the purity necessary for weapons. So using these way more expensive tools to create fuel would be just stupid.
- kjs3 11y agoThey use exactly the same process and technology (these days either gas diffusion or gas centrifuge). These are iterative processes; you keep running them until you get the level of enrichment you want (<20% for fuel, >80% for weapons). Quit speculating on how you can get the answer you want and try the facts.
- idlewords 11y agoYou can make a campfire out of plastic explosives, too. You got an answer to your question and then moved the goalposts. Move on.
- kjs3 11y agoI asked what technology in a fission bomb did have non-military applications. He answered with a product (not a technology) for which the technology to produce has other, obvious, non-military applications. He is wrong, your point about plastic explosives is irrelevant sophistry, and no goalposts have been moved.