Joanna
Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>Chuck Grimes:
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>When the US developed the hydrogen bomb they used
>plutonium with secondary applications for non-enriched
>U-238 metal as a container shield and they may have
>used some enriched U-235 for an internal and tertiary
>`spark plug' fission reaction to boost the fusion
>output. Although even as a internal spark plug,
>plutonium fission seems like a better choice.
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>In other words the primary and just about only use for
>developing an uranium enrichment industry is civilian
>nuclear reactors, period.
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>Precisely.
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>Surely one of the reasons it has been so simple - via
>the magic of scaremongering wordplay - for Washington
>to turn an Iranian nuclear FUEL program into a 'code
>red!' weapons program is the fact so few people have
>even the sketchiest idea how reactors are powered and
>fission bombs get made.
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>In this state of deliberate dis and mis-information
>Iranian statements they've achieved a modest level of
>uranium enrichment are thrown into the alarmist pot,
>stirred about and hotly served up as further evidence
>of perfidious intentions. After all, it's all
>"nuclear" and, therefore, all contributions to the
>vaporous Tehran bomb we're encouraged to believe is
>only a heartbeat away and about which, all 'decent'
>people agree, "something must be done."
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>I've been following nuclear technology as an
>interested amateur since around age 12 (which made me
>the kind of kid who simultaneously delighted and bored
>his family at Thanksgiving dinner with micro lectures
>on my latest readings about uranium hexafluoride or
>UF6) and could see directly through Washington's
>hyperventilating declarations and impending atomic
>doom.
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>But, I failed to provide the level of useful
>background you've given us here Chuck so thank you for
>taking the time to do that.
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