To: FreeTheHostages
Er, all plutonium is "weapons grade."
Uranium must undergo isotope separation, which is hard. Plutonium from a breeder reactor can be separated from the low-grade Uranium via chemical means -- easy.
To: Starrgaizr
Can you get weapons grade stuff using centrifuges??
91 posted on
04/10/2003 10:39:52 AM PDT by
Dog
To: Starrgaizr
I stand corrected. Makes very good sense. Fox news said they had to do more tests to see if it was "weapons grade," which I guess in this context means plutonium.
To: Starrgaizr
FOX NEWS website headline: "Weapons Grade Plutonium Possibly Found in Iraq"
Just so that I may understand, "weapons grade" is redundant in the title in the sense that, with dirty bomb technology, any plutonium is weapons grade? Just that the weapon would be a dirty bomb, not a nuclear weapon delivered by missle?
Not being facetious -- seriously asking for guidance.
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