Re:Two students built an A-bomb (2003)
by yobbo on Monday May 15, 2023 @08:56AM
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But how does one get enough uranium to produce enough enriched uranium to reach critical mass? My guess you have to start with hundreds of kg:s.
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Re:Two students built an A-bomb (2003)
by peterfirefly on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:01AM
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I think that's one of the easier parts. Even if you have to mine it yourself somewhere in Greenland, Australia, or Northern Sweden (where I presume you are from), it shouldn't be too hard.
(Only the Swedes and the Finns do the ':' thing when they add an inflection to an abbreviation.)
Re:Two students built an A-bomb (2003)
by johnhaltonx21 on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:10AM
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as a national state with sea access, you could filter it from seawater.
that's not energy efficient and takes a long time, but it's relatively easy access.
https://www.epj-n.org/articles/epjn/pdf/2016/01/epjn150059.p...
~100g uranium / 117kg adsorbent material / month
a warhead needs about 25kg (enriched) uranium.
so 2,5 months with ~11,2tons of adsorbent material spread over a few square miles of sea should give you the needed 25kg. That still needs to be enriched, but once in operation a system like this generates about 125kg uranium/year. (if you need more or faster just scale the system, plenty of space within the 12 mile zone)