From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 22:44:49 MDT
Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net> Wrote:
> Again, to get "30" or even "20" pounds of sufficiently pure fissionable
> from reactor waste is NOT EASY.
Too easy. You could also make a bomb from 80 pounds of plutonium dioxide,
but why bother? If you have access to spent fuel rods, and there are thousands
of tons of them, refining plutonium metal from them is, if not easy is not very hard.
Physicist and nuclear bomb expert Frank Barnaby is quoted in the June 2 New Scientist
"The chemistry required to extract the Plutonium is less than that required for the illegal
manufacture of designer drugs."
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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