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minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoYou so sure? The US doesn’t use centrifuge to enrich plutonium.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoDo you think maybe that was a pretty obvious joke?
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoNot very obvious. By definition weapons-grade plutonium is 90% enriched. Besides being used for nukes, it’s the most poisonous substance on earth. Needless to say, the security around this material is as tight as we can make it. Somebody somewhere sold this guy some.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoyou don’t enrich plutonium silly
minus-squareNoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoIn Soviet Russia, plutonium enriches you!
Presumably, a centrifuge.
You so sure? The US doesn’t use centrifuge to enrich plutonium.
Do you think maybe that was a pretty obvious joke?
Not very obvious.
By definition weapons-grade plutonium is 90% enriched. Besides being used for nukes, it’s the most poisonous substance on earth. Needless to say, the security around this material is as tight as we can make it. Somebody somewhere sold this guy some.
you don’t enrich plutonium silly
In Soviet Russia, plutonium enriches you!