To: Dog Gone
By the way, is there any plutonium that isn't weapons grade? I suppose if it were highly dispersed in some other material, it might not be. But pure plutonium, no, I think pretty much regardless of isotopic composition, if you've got enough of it, you have a bomb.
To: Right Wing Professor
"By the way, is there any plutonium that isn't weapons grade? I suppose if it were highly dispersed in some other material, it might not be. But pure plutonium, no, I think pretty much regardless of isotopic composition, if you've got enough of it, you have a bomb. "
Well, it's dangerous (chemically, pyrophorically, and radiologically) no matter what isotope, but only Pu-239 is fissile (meaning it can sustain a chain-reaction: bomb material).
175 posted on
04/10/2003 10:56:13 AM PDT by
NukeMan
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