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Overpressure... as the Russians taught to the Afghani's, a small explosion in an enclosed space does massive damage to both soft and hard materials. You don't
by FuriouslyAdrift 1y ago
Overpressure... as the Russians taught to the Afghani's, a small explosion in an enclosed space does massive damage to both soft and hard materials.
You don't have to blow something up to destroy it.
- ethbr1 1y agoCentrifuges and driving equipment, sure. But U-235 doesn't stop being U-235 because you pressurized or heated it up. Can't blow up atoms. Best case, instead of a pile of enriched uranium, you now have a highly concentrated mine. Sure, you'd have to separate it again, but getting U-235 away from dirt and rock is a lot easier than separating it from other uranium isotopes. Even if it was stored as volatile UF6, what, you've converted it to UO2F2 / U3O8?
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoThey can buy enriched uranium from at least 2 sources... The expertise and equipment to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal at scale is vastly more important.