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Crikey - 93Kg of highly enriched uranium is enough for 4 nukes and would cost about $1.4Bn in today's money. 'Curious' that the US didn't move entire mountain
by detritus 5y ago
Crikey - 93Kg of highly enriched uranium is enough for 4 nukes and would cost about $1.4Bn in today's money.
'Curious' that the US didn't move entire mountain ranges to find the stuff... .
- dboreham 5y agoThat's because they knew where it went.
- eh9 5y agoAm I wrong or did I just read that it essentially “evaporated”?
- detritus 5y agoThat was the second 90kg of Enriched Uranium lost at that facility. The mind boggles.
- rdtsc 5y agoExactly. They couldn’t not investigate, but they also knew where it went and didn’t exactly want to dig too hard because they might accidentally find too much evidence.
- philipkglass 5y agoIt's more like $10 million in today's money, based on the $12/gram cost shown for highly enriched uranium in "UCOST - A Computer Code for Calculating the Cost of Enriched Uranium" (Atomic Energy Commission report, 1966) and then adjusted by CPI.
- detritus 5y agoHuh, I'd've assumed it the other way around given the infrastructure requirement at the time, but your cost sounds a lot more likely given its provenance than the [now, i realise belatedly, unvalidated] cost I Googled prior.