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Re: a new nuclear option?



Dewey Dykstra, Jr. wrote:

The bottom line: technologies for getting energy from plutonium exists and
burrying the unprocessed spent fuel underground is no longer the best
option.
That is my opinion based on what I hear from experts. Did you know that the
are about 500 metric tons of bomb-grade plutonium in the world now. Only
about 20 kilograms (an educated guess again) is needed for a bomb.

Ludwik Kowalski

My recollection from a recent news story is that only about 13 oz were in
the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. ( <<20kg)


Dewey

I seem to recall that the Bomb dropped on Hiroshime was uranium based, the
Nagisaki bomb was
plutonium based.
--
Richard Goode

Now that I think about it, this sounds right. I think it was Uranium based.

Dewey

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Department of Physics/SN318 Fax: (208)385-4330
Boise State University dykstrad@varney.idbsu.edu
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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938

"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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