[ExI] Depleted Uranium (was: We Need a Movide People!! Dammit!)

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 08/05/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:29:55PM -0400, Keith Henson wrote:
>
> > More like deep inside in the neutron flux.  I recently wrote about
> making
> > super high grade Pu 239 by pumping a depleted uranium solution through a
> > reactor core and sorting out the plutonium (chemically) before it picks
> up
> > another neutron.  To my surprise no calls from 3 letter agencies.
>
> It takes a great deal more than suggesting something so well-known
> (and which takes a nuclear reactor) to get a call from a TLA.
>
> Try posting a detailed blueprint for a nuclear weapon in an arsenal,
> or at least something when has been tested. I listen very closely to
> when weapon designers talk, and it is very obvious that they're damn
> careful about what they say and what they don't say.
>

Surely all a terrorist with access to fissionable material would need is
1940's technology to be a real threat. Fancy modern delivery systems would
be icing on the cake.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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