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Your numbers appear to be way off. Commercial reactor grade Uranium is enriched to less than 20% (typically about 5%) while weapons grade Uranium is closer to
by tgflynn 5y ago
Your numbers appear to be way off. Commercial reactor grade Uranium is enriched to less than 20% (typically about 5%) while weapons grade Uranium is closer to 90% (the first U-235 bomb was enriched to 80%). Some specialized reactors do use highly enriched Uranium however.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium