Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee...
by xxpor on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:30PM
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Are there any micro-reactor designs that use non-enriched or minimally enriched uranium? My understanding is that natural uranium isn't really that dangerous, even in a dirty bomb, and then in terms of proliferation it already isn't that hard to get it.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee...
by LorenPechtel on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:48PM
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Yeah. Uranium for sale, no permits: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee...
by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:43PM
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Most reactors use somewhere in the range of 3-5% U235 (compared to .7% naturally). That by itself won't let you make a bomb, but it gets you about 1/8th of the way to 20% which is about where a bomb is possible.