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this will severely effect our clash of clans guild

Edit: r/rant

not for a bomb tho, even the cheapest method that doesn't involve isotopic concentration (centrifuge or diffusion) it is still a very work intensive and expensive project

lets look at good ol' uranium-plutonium

you can make yourself a breeder reactor pretty easily (it is pretty simple, very laborious tho) and start with an already highly active elements, tho this would only feasibly work with a fluid (a solid would start turning the outer layer to more active fissiles, but that's it, only those surface layers would be turned to higher concentration, while protecting the inner layer of natural uranium)

the easiest would be to make Uranium hexafluoride since it is a fluid at pretty mild conditions (gas under 100°C I think?) , which would make it much easier to concentrate the fissiles production

anyways, this method only gets you to a certain equilibrium of plutonium production that barely reaches 5% till it boosts transuranics production (the plutonium will be 239 but also 240, 241 and 242, you don't want those), BUT... it's a much more active sample than anything you could get your hands to start with (active radium samples, Americium from fire detectors, maybe radioactive cesium and strontium stolen from spent cancer radiotherapy units)

you separate the plutonium from the uranium and "coat it" onto something porous, and start your breeder again, and you repeat this step until you have a plutonium with enough 239 concentration as to sustain a moderated chain reaction by itself, in that case you change your breeder design to a rod like classic controlled reactor and optimize for 239 production, and if you choose the proper breeder design (experimentation, trial and error)... you should be getting concentrated 239 plutonium (over 80%) with which you can make bombs

dunno about the thorium to uranium 235 cycle since I have 0 experience with it, and that's why I choose Uranium-Plutonium as an example cause the process is very well known and, well, public.... the most difficult part is the uranium plutonium separation and the design to optimize the isotopic conversion, but the U-Pu separation is public domain information (Purex method) and has been performed for non-military applications for 3 decades at least (mostly French patents and companies since they have a lot of fission plants)

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From what I understand in order to get enough nuclear material ready for the bomb need to put a lot of radioactive stuff in a centrifuges, like a ton of centrifuges. The problem with this is it makes an unbelievably visible radioactive signature. That's why we're almost sure that Iran or Iraq and even North Korea just don't have access to nuclear weapons. We can literally see if they're making one from space with how visible it is to see. You would never be able to make a nuke in the us because you really need like an underground lead line super lab

It's more expensive to maintain than make as far as i know most countries made their own nukes few decades ago but gave up after building them because how expensive it is to maintain them

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For a year or so now this piece has been stuck in my head and I couldn't figure out what it was. I was so sure that it was from You Only Live Twice, but then I'd listen to the soundtrack and think "No, close, but it's definitely different," and then a month later I'd think "Wait, was it really different? How did that You Only Live Twice theme go again? It musta been the same. Let me give it another listen...oh...no, definitely different, dang" Repeat every few months.

Now, FINALLY, I can get out of this cycle!! Thank you!

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