Can Terrorists process the depleted uranium in American tanks to make a neutron reflector?
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I wouldn't believe everything you read on wiki, especially things dealing with controversial topics like nuclear energy or stem cells.\n\nNow to answer your question, I suppose that depleted uranium could be used as a reflector in a bomb, but its effects will be marginal at best, lead probabally would be a better pick. Also if Uranium was a better reflector, you would be better off using natural Uranium than depleted Uranium. Its relativity easy to get both natural Uranium and lead so worrying about depleted Uranium rounds is kind of silly.
380761
Depleted uranium is a low grade radioactive metallic substance that is very dense (heavy).  Kinda like lead.  Used in sheets, its a GREAT armor.  Used in bullets and projectiles, it's deadly.\n\nThank you for your time.
7214
You could build a fission device, minus the plutonium.  That'll get their attention.
46832
This is too hypothetical to be a real problem.  The heat generated would also deform the steel.  For the current largest Thermonuclear bomb you would be looking at something approaching distances in the wall of the container approaching a mile.  Even this depends upon the volume contained within.\n\nFrom a practical aspect, if one took all of the world's current steel production for one year, you might have enough steel to construct such a device (about 5 million metric tons).  If you miscalculated, you would get an even larger boom (like putting a cherry bomb in a sealed pipe).\n\nA bomb is not a nuclear generator.  Read at the site below for information on a Soviet 100 megaton bomb:
527009
Good job buddy, now the goverment knows you are looking for AK57s.. why dont you ask: how to build a nuclear weapon? next time.. haha
147555
Yes but the range you require would not be possible. Gamma rays spread out. You cannot reflect it into a fine beam.\nSo it is very difficult. However if you invent one .I would strongly advice u not to kill all...(or for that matter any) humans using it:-)
1117253
Yes, it's done all the time in nuclear reactors. \n\nIt's done by shooting neutrons at atoms of Uranium-235, which is "fissionable", meaning it's a kind of atom that can be split. (Other kinds of atoms can't be split, at least not easily).\n\nThey don't pick the individual atoms they want to split; they just put a bunch of U-235 near a neutron source, and wait. Nor do they see the atoms. They determine it has been split by analyzing the uranium before and after it's been bombarded. Afterwards, there are trances of other elements that weren't there before. So that's how they know.
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It was low-enriched uranium, not weapons grade. So the answer is NONE. No nukes with THAT uranium. It would have to be enriched , and would amount to a miniscule amount after that.\n\n"could potentially be used in a radiological dispersal device," or dirty bomb.
44111
Ok well the current JET (Joint European Torus) in Culham, Oxfordshire, UK is the biggest experimental fusion reactor in the world. Although the ITER is set to overtake it in France. There are many different fusion reactions that we can use, although the most preferable one is Deuterium-Tritium because it is one of the easist to kick-start. The big advantage with fusion is its (relative) safety and phenomenal power output. The amount of useful energy which we can obtain from nuclear fusion is staggering. It does not release pollutants into the atmosphere and although there is a radioactive by-product, this is not a problem since it is easy to deal with (unlike radioactive uranium and plutonium). The major disadvantage is the cost. The current fusion project in France almost didn't happen. Both Europe and Japan wanted it on their territory, but couldn't come to a compromise. In the end Europe insisted that they take the project alone and Japan can join in if they wish! The new reactor is in the stages of being built now but it will be some time before it is operational. And in its current state it is only in an experimental stage; it is not yet in a commercial stage, and won't be for many decades. However it is the perfect solution for producing electrical energy, with huge benefits (apart from the intial cost). See weblink for more detailed information.
134301
more than likely.if they do they should nuke and nerve gas them till they glow.these people dont want nuclear power for energy.they want to make dirty weapons,and with the rumour of russian missile technology already in the country,it would just be a matter of time before they strike at israel or cities in europe or anywhere else for that matter.the west needs to learn that diplomacy does not work these people.
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As uranium metal is very dense and heavy, depleted uranium is used by some militaries as shielding to protect tanks, and also in parts of bullets, kinetic energy penetrators and missiles. The military also uses enriched uranium (more than natural levels of 235U) to power nuclear propelled navy ships and submarines, and in nuclear weapons. Fuel used for United States Navy reactors is typically highly enriched in 235U.In nuclear weapons uranium is also highly enriched, usually over 90%  to a level known as "weapons grade".\n\nThe main use of uranium in the civilian sector is to fuel commercial nuclear power plants, where fuel is typically enriched in 235U to 2-3%. However, the Canadian Candu reactors use natural uranium (i.e.unenriched) as fuel. Depleted uranium is used in helicopters and airplanes as counterweights on certain wing parts. Other uses include;\n\nCeramic glazes where small amounts of natural uranium (that is, not having gone through the enrichment process) may be added for colour. \nAddition of uranium makes fluorescent yellow or green coloured glass. \nThe long half-life of the isotope 238U (4.51 × 109 years) make it well-suited for use in estimating the age of the earliest igneous rocks and for other types of radiometric dating (including uranium-thorium dating and uranium-lead dating). \n238U is converted into plutonium in breeder reactors. Plutonium can be used in reactors, or in nuclear weapons. \nUranyl acetate, UO2(CH3COO)2 is used in analytical chemistry. It forms an insoluble salt with sodium. \nSome lighting fixtures utilise uranium, as do some photographic chemicals (esp. uranium nitrate). \nPhosphate fertilisers often contain high amounts of natural uranium, because the mineral material from which they are made is typically high in uranium. \nUranium metal is used for X-ray targets in making of high-energy X-rays
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"Tactical neutron bombs are primarily intended to kill soldiers who are protected by armor. Armored vehicles are very resistant to blast and heat produced by nuclear weapons, but steel armor can reduce neutron radiation only by a modest amount so the lethal range from neutrons greatly exceeds that of other weapon effects. The lethal range for tactical neutron bombs can exceed the lethal range for blast and heat even for unprotected troops. Armor can absorb neutrons and neutron energy, thus reducing the neutron radiation to which the tank crew is exposed, but this offset to some extent by the fact that armor can also react harmfully with neutrons. Alloy steels for example can develop induced radioactivity that remains dangerous for some time. When fast neutrons are slowed down, the energy lost can show up as x-rays. Some types of armor, like that of the M-1 tank, employ depleted uranium which can undergo fast fission, generating additional neutrons and becoming radioactive. Special neutron absorbing armor techniques have also been developed, such as armors containing boronated plastics and the use of vehicle fuel as a shield."\n\nreference: http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Outlaws/faq1\n\n"Also called ENHANCED RADIATION WARHEAD, specialized type of small thermonuclear weapon that produces minimal blast and heat but which releases large amounts of lethal radiation. The neutron bomb delivers blast and heat effects that are confined to an area of only a few hundred yards in radius. But within a somewhat larger area it throws off a massive wave of neutron and gamma radiation, which can penetrate armour or several feet of earth. This radiation is extremely destructive to living tissue. Because of its short-range destructiveness and the absence of long-range effect, the neutron bomb would be highly effective against tank and infantry formations on the battlefield but would not endanger cities or other population centres only a few miles away. It can be carried in a Lance missile or delivered by an 8-inch (200-millimetre) howitzer, or possibly by attack aircraft.\n\nIn strategic terms, the neutron bomb has a theoretical deterrent effect: discouraging an armoured ground assault by arousing the fear of neutron bomb counterattack. The bomb would disable enemy tank crews in minutes, and those exposed would die within days. U.S. production of the bomb was postponed in 1978 and resumed in 1981."\n\nreference: http://www.britannica.com/seo/n/neutron-bomb/
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Nuclear fusion power. Look up the Tokamak Reactor.
514462
Unless you are letting it be run by a bunch of drunk ruskies, who think it is a good idea to pull out all the control rods and see how hot they can make the reactor... \n\nOther wise (truth be told) the ammount of radiation that is emited by a nuclear power plant is about the same as the ammount emited by a oil or coal power plant.
293938
well depending on how well it's built, the same thing that would happen to any reactor hear in the US if it core was breached. You would have a radiation leak
814757
A nuclear reactor contains uranium and a moderator, such as water or carbon (as graphite).  If struck by a neutron, U-235 is likely to fission, yielding fragments and two or three neutrons, which can, if you do things right, cause more fissions -- it's called a chain reaction.  Unfortunately, most uranium is U-238, which does not like to fission nearly as much as U-235 does -- but it does eat neutrons, becoming U-239 which decays to Np-239 and Pu-239.  The appetite of U-238 for neutrons is considerably reduced if the neutrons are slowed down before they have a chance to interact with it, and that is what a moderator does: it slows them down so that instead of traveling near the speed of light, they are traveling at about the speed of sound.  When the slow neutrons encounter a uranium fuel rod, they are more likely to be captured by U-235 to produce fission than by U-238, so the chain reaction can continue.  It is important that not all neutrons created by a fission are released immediately -- some are delayed, and that permits the reactor to be controlled by inserting rods of a neutron-absorptive material to keep the reaction from getting out of hand. \n In an atomic bomb, U-235 (or Pu-239) in nearly pure form is quickly assembled into a mass of such size that more neutrons cause fission than escape through the sides of the material, and so that delayed neutron release is overwhelmed by quick release, so a kilogram or more of uranium can fission before the device blows itself to pieces.
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That guy is a nut case, in my opinion, if he figues out how to make nucular weapons, we all better watch out. Course he is friends with our Gov of New Mexico! The Gov flys over there and tries to talk him out of deveploping the stuff. He's probably just trying to use the power to get stuff from the US! :)