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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics
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To: SOROS who wrote (4667)11/10/2001 11:48:29 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (5) of 99280
 
I doubt that story, typical weapon grade Plutonium 239 (with less than 7% Pu(240)) has a critical mass (in the form of sphere) of about 10 Kg, 8 Kg won't make it or it must be a very sophisticated supergrade plutonium (less than 2% or 3% Pu 240). The likelihood of their having super grade Pu is very low. Unless they got a "finished" product somewhere, I doubt they have the real thing. The critical mass of high grade U235 is similar. In any event, to have an effective weapon, you must use super critical mass, thus use a lot more of the stuff. Sure, there are some "excotic" combinations of transuranic fissile materials with critical masses in the sub 100 gram range, but these type of devices should have a very short "shelf" life. If indeed these were produced in 1988, they are no longer fissile today.

I think this is just "Journalistic Zealotery"

Zeev
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