Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoYeah, but those things are not weapons-grade plutonium, either.
Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
boydster@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoYeah, but those things are not weapons-grade plutonium, either.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That just means it is purified enough to be usable in a weapon. There’s also lots of different plutonium isotopes, each with various suitability to weapons vs energy.
We need a lot more info to have an informed conversation than a blanket statement like “weapons-grade plutonium”. And I definitely don’t trust any major media outlet journalist at this point to have any idea what the fuck they’re talking about, especially with regards to anything nuclear. They regularly get things wrong or even completely backwards from reality with less complicated topics.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).