“But, you can drop a plug of pellets into an LWR core for a short time and have weapons grade plutonium? So ANY of our 40 or so PWR can be put to into sue for weapons grade PU239, right?”
But, But, But. Remember your statement?
‘We use LWR’s because they make weapon’s grade materials’
Given that they have never been used for that, your original statement if false. I don’t know why you don’t just accept that fact.
As for your above, you don’t just drop some pellets in. It takes days to open up and reseal the reactor vessel.
So fine, pick fly sheet out of pepper and make a semantic argument. I am looking at the policy decision made by the Nixon administration to pick the PWR as the winning design. You cannot argue that is not what they did.
The did so because any PWR can be put into service to manufacture PU239. They picked the PWR for this reason. I stand by my opinion it is a stupid design, if tour goal is to efficiently produce electricity. Electricity is a side show.
I accept it - you are probably right. American PWR's do not manufacture bomb material, at least as far as we have been told. But they CAN manufacture bomb material. And whether they have is something we will likely never know. Agree?