From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 15:10:24 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> Though I do not like to bring this up....
>
> > More than 500 tons of natural uranium and 1.8 tons of low-enriched
> > uranium were stored at Tuwaitha, international inspectors have said
>
> Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/international/worldspecial/08IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print
>
> Please note the scales involved -- *TONS*. It takes only a few
> tens of kg to make a nuclear weapon (of enriched uranium)
> and less than that to make a weapon out of plutonium.
Low-enriched uranium is 1-3%. Enriched uranium for weapons could be as
low as 30% or as high as 90% or more. Lower concentrations require more
than just proportionally more mass.
The process to enrich low to high is more strictly high tech than just
enriching ore to low levels of enrichment, and more time consuming,
since at each increase in enrichment, you have to process less at a
time to reduce the radiation produced.
What is really needes are vehicles equipped with sensitive radiation
counters patrolling streets gridwise to locate concentrations of
isotopes, much like those vans in Britain that locate un-taxed televisions.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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