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To: Brian Griffin

Nah, they’d still have to refine much much much further. The real threat would be a bad actor making a dirty bomb or just leaving the uranium in the a few trash cans in a crowded area. Or in a sewer, subway, Stadium, etc...


9 posted on 06/05/2026 9:31:31 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (RL)
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To: for-q-clinton
It’s 20% enriched uranium would allow a bad entity to make an atomic bomb with maybe 10% of the effort required if started from natural uranium.

Weapons grade Uranium has to be enriched above 80%.

After the reactor has been at full power for a few months the radiation from the fission products will protect the reactor from any but the most determined and well informed thieves.

20 posted on 06/05/2026 10:05:39 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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