• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    “Weapons grade” is actually more stable and less prone to blowing up without constant management, who knew?

    Nothing-burger.

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        4 days ago

        Apparently, the opposite is the case. Funny story, when making a bomb, blowing up during construction, storage, or delivery to the target is an un-desirable trait.

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            4 days ago

            … but its not? Literally, the “harder” part about making a bomb with reactor-grade material is keeping it from blowing-up prematurely, while still getting maximum yeild at boom-boom time.

            A less-advanced nation might get a lesser explosion out of a “safer”(doesn’t explode until its supposed to) bomb with reactor-grade material, but its still going to be a massive, nuclear explosion, and the unspent fuel creates additional radio-active fallout.

            Apparently, civilized-countries’ worst nightmare regarding weapons-grade plutonium is that those that “shouldn’t” have “the bomb” could build them and then be able to shelve them for a later, legitimate threat. Oh, and not being able to cry “they built a dirty bomb!!” if such were ever used.