Re: Can hydrogen deliver?

From: Tim O'Flaherty (pinwheels_Fudge__at_gwi.net)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:28:53 -0500

"Eric Gisin" <ericgisin@graffiti.net> wrote in message
news:cm8a920191s@enews3.newsguy.com...
> "Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwheels_Fudge_@gwi.net> wrote in message
> news:Soednd1lZ7WCHxrcRVn-hA@gwi.net...
>
> > No problemo for the moment. Wait until someone like Osama steals or
> > buys/bribes a small portion of this separated Pu stockpile. Will we put
> > those costs on our utility bills, another 5 or 10 mills per kWh, for
losing
> > downtown Cleveland or Philly or Times Square? No big deal at all.
> >
> Now bin Laden is a nuclear physicist, who can throw together a fission
bomb?
>
> Unless he buy/steals a bomb, it just can't happen.
>

Doesn't take a nuclear physicist.

http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/nuclear/plutonium/EnergyReviewSubmissi
on0901.htm

[Having obtained a MOX fuel assembly by diversion or theft, a sophisticated
terrorist group would have little difficulty in making a crude nuclear
explosive. The necessary steps of separating the plutonium, converting it
into PuO2, converting the oxide into plutonium metal, and assembling the
metal or PuO2 together with conventional explosive are not technologically
demanding and do not require materials from specialist suppliers. The
information required to carry out these operations is freely available in
the open literature.]

Starting from already separated Pu, hundreds of tons worldwide and more as
reprocessing continues, would be even easier.

Regards,
Tim O

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