To: webstersII
Heavy water -- a water molecule with an extra neutron -- is harmless in itself, but it is used to slow down nuclear reactions, necessary for producing atomic bombs.
To: Grand Old Partisan
heavy water would not make the detectors go off the scales. Bad batteries might. Or partially processed plutonium waiting for a new highspeed centrifuge to concentrate it.
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