OK math wizards, lets cypher!
24 tons enriched uranium.
50lbs or so to make a Yuge BOOM.
10-15lbs of plutonium to make a gigantically Yuger BOOM.
Discuss.......
U-235 is about 0.7% of naturally occurring uranium. If they processed 24,000 kg of uranium down to 300 kg of enriched uranium then that means the 300 kg is enriched to about 57% U-235. Not sure if that is good enough for effective fission bombs but if the U-235 is further refined to say, 85%, you might be able to build 8 or 9 simple bombs with that stockpile.
“OK math wizards, lets cypher!
24 tons enriched uranium.
50lbs or so to make a Yuge BOOM.”
It also depends on how enriched (concentrated) the uranium is.
Likely the stockpile in the bank is low enriched (they report 3.67% of U-235) reactor grade, but they need Highly Enriched Uranium (at least 20%) to make any kind of atomic bomb. So there is probably a 5 to 1, or more likely a 20 to 1 ratio between that stockpile, and the usable amount of weapons grade uranium (typically 85% or better) that they could produce with it. There would also be some delay in processing it.
The very first uranium bomb, Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima, used 64 kilograms of 80% enriched uranium.
However it is likely that whatever is officially admitted to is only the tip of the iceberg - that more, and more highly enriched stocks continue to be developed in secret.
Your numbers depend on “how enriched.” They’re correct if its 100% enriched, otherwise they’d be considerably lower.
I’d like to know just where they got this uranium. Hitlery F. Clinton sells it to Russia, Russia sells it to....??