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To: Right Wing Professor
calling Saddam Hussein a miscreant

Wow, even that seems harsh. I'm not sure Jean Chretien would approve.

By the way, is there any plutonium that isn't weapons grade?

61 posted on 04/10/2003 10:35:28 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
"By the way, is there any plutonium that isn't weapons grade?"

Yes...Pu-238 is used in space probes because it produces a prodigious amount of heat (70 watts/gram, IIRC) which can be converted to electricity.

Unlikely that is what they actually found!
124 posted on 04/10/2003 10:43:21 AM PDT by NukeMan
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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.

154 posted on 04/10/2003 10:48:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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