fitumpich

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   by fitumpich 13y ago

   well in a light water reactor some of thr fuel can be Pu, but you really can't go beyond 30%. With that said, if you build a reactor that doesn't need to moderate the neutrons and slow them down you could use nothing but plutoniu
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   by fitumpich 13y ago

   They do. Decommissioned HEU is downblended to LEU levels for use in power reactors. You dont need that level of enrichment for a power reactor. About 5% enrichment is all commericals reactors use. The program has been in place since the
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   by fitumpich 13y ago

   I understand you don't trust the NSA, but the viability of what it takes to make a bomb is just basic well understood physics. There's no conspiracy there. You either have enough mass, at a higher enough level of enrichment and
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   by fitumpich 13y ago

   That is correct. i work in nuclear material security and safeguards. For what I can say, which isn't much, it's the security of the material (HEU and Pu) that makes it hard to make a bomb. Its hard to enrich, and furthermore yo