Posted on 11/02/2005 12:32:53 PM PST by RDTF
I guess my point was that plutonium is not the only material that can be used for atomic weapons, and if they're running a LWR they have access to quantities of enriched uranium which would give them a good head start on enriching it to weapons-grade uranium. However, if I read this stuff right, diverting it would be difficult, whereas with a HWR like the CANDU they could unload and process the fuel for weapons-grade plutonium more easily.
If they're going to run a HWR like the CANDU in places like N. Korea it sounds like what we should be supplying them with is MOX fuel which would not be suitable for making bomb-grade materials, since separating Pu-240 from Pu-239 is basically just as technically difficult, and noticeable, as enriching uranisum would be. But I suppose they could still source their own unenriched uranium to use and fuel and then withdraw it and process it before the percentage of Pu-240 becomes too high.
Interesting, I really never knew that there was any much weaponization potential to the CANDU reactor. OTOH, HWR like the CANDU are especially well suited to burning up existing stocks of Pu in the form of MOX fuels.
Pravda. Now there's a reliable news source for ya!
The USSR made many variety sorts of rockets but.. Many plants making some parts of rockets also jet-engines were in former republics (mainly in Ukraine which became denuclearized).===
Only one factory was there- UzhMash in Denpropetrovsk. Others are located in Ural region.
All design bereau was located in Russia. For example- Moscow. And some in same Ural region.
After collapse of the USSR, Russia could not make even one sort of rocket from beginning up to the end. ==
Yeah?:)) I far as I know Russia still make cosmos flights. How so? Who made SOUZ and Proton rocket? The Energy corporation. Where is it located? Russia. Notice rockets are both liquid-fueled.
Russia built new cosmodrome from where she does military launches. For what? If according to you Russia cann't "make even one sort of rocket from beginning up to the end".
Moreover, almost all soviet rockets had liquid-fuel engine though solid-fuel rockets are more convenient in the service.==
For military service yes. Much less of maintainance. For peaceful purposes liquid fueled are better hence more energy for same weight.
"Defense, apparently, can almost always be overcome by a good offensive weapon or system."
Any one can claim any thing they want as long as they don't have to present any real data.
Pravda got it all mixed up. It was the only Russian news agency to get it wrong. The Russians tested an SS-25 (SICKLE) not an SS-27. The launch was declared and notified to the US under START.
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Putin is a commie. Always has been, always will be.
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