i thought i heard that the process to make weapons-grade plutonium was by putting it into a nuclear reactor and isolating/enriching a certain part of it..?
i dont know i could've sworn there's some big deal over how "Easy" it is to make weapons grade plutonium if you just have raw uranium or something..?
Why the fuck would it be such a big deal that certain countries have the ability to make their own nuclear power if there wasn't any danger that they could use that ability to also make nuclear weapons....
EL BLANCO I THINK YOURE PULLING MY LEG
wikipedia:
Plutonium-239 is one of the three
fissile materials used for the production of
nuclear weapons and in some
nuclear reactors as a source of energy. The other fissile materials are
uranium-235 and
uranium-233. Plutonium-239 is virtually nonexistent in nature. It is made by bombarding
uranium-238 with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Uranium-238 is present in quantity in most reactor fuel; hence plutonium-239 is continuously made in these reactors. Since plutonium-239 can itself be split by
neutrons to release energy, plutonium-239 provides a portion of the energy generation in a nuclear reactor.
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