[ExI] Depleted Uranium

ben benboc at lineone.net
Tue May 8 19:22:29 UTC 2007



John K Clark wrote:

> And also, about 70% of the energy in an H bomb does not come from 
> U235 or Plutonium or even the fusion reaction, it comes from common 
> cheap depleted Uranium (U238). The fusion reaction makes lots of very
> high speed neutrons and those high speed neutrons can split even
> hard to split depleted Uranium; and that releases one hell of a lot
> of energy.

Spot the deliberate mistake ;>

ben zaiboc



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