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I’m not aware of any practical nuclear weapon design using U-233. Can you cite one? The tests I’m aware of appear to be inconclusive as to whether U-233 works a

I’m not aware of any practical nuclear weapon design using U-233. Can you cite one? The tests I’m aware of appear to be inconclusive as to whether U-233 works as weapons material. They seem to have resulted in a fissle or very low yield device, have significant purification problems, and were dropped as a research pathway by all nuclear powers that worked with it.

acidburnNSA 7y ago
Yes: The classic uranium gun-type weapon design works beautifully with U-233. Very low spontaneous fission, very excellent neutronics. U-233 is unequivocally excellent weapons material. That's undebated fundamental nuclear physics. A Significant Quantity of U-233 is defined as 8 kg, better than U-235! [1] The folks down at Los Alamos aren't messing around. [1] https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-11-03368 https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lar... Just read this: http://fissilematerials.org/library/sgs09kang.pdf http://fissilematerials.org/library/sgs09kang.pdf