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Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman (futurism.com)

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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It might require a great deal of rejiggering because the fission output of the materials are not one to one. Kinda the whole point of weapons grade, you can't achieve a neutron cascade for efficiency in a weapon if you don't already have a kinda unstable "rock". Granted some reactors are designed to work better with a doped mix already.