To: Ditto
Yes!
The Pu239 is produced as a by-product of inserting "regular" fuel into the reactor, then letting it "burn" for a while.
Then you pull several thousand pounds of HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE!!! (emphasis added) rods out, separate the Pu239 and U235 from the waste products (which creates deadly gasses and acidic waste products of dissolved metals and "junk") then take the separated grams of Pu239 to the bomb-making facility.
The rods are re-mixed, put back in the reactor, and you do it again. We are still "playing" with the tanks of liquid waste from WWII at hanford WA; and here, Hussein buried it in unlined drums in an aquifer next to a river!
Stupid. Criminally stupid.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
...and here, Hussein buried it in unlined drums in an aquifer next to a river!Oh, boy...
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