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Category Archives: Nuclear Weapons
North Korea tested another nuclear device on February 12. One of the questions about that test was whether the fissionable material used was enriched uranium or plutonium. That question could only be answered by outsiders if samples of the xenon … Continue reading
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To supplement the series on the MOX plant, here is a PowerPoint presentation from Shaw-AREVA . This is also available from the South Carolina Energy Office. Posts in the Nuclear Diner series: Where Do Nuclear Weapons Go To Die? Canning … Continue reading
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Tagged MOX, United States
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The standoff continues between Iran and the IAEA about an inspection of the Parchin facility that is suspected of holding a containment tank for explosives tests related to nuclear weapons development. Robert Kelley has renewed his objection that such a … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union
Tagged IAEA, Iran, Parchin, Semipalatinsk
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Jeffrey Lewis has stirred up the question of whether apparatus photographed in Burma/Myanmar is useful for uranium and rare earth chemistry. I’ve provided a quick overview based on my experience. But there’s another source of information on uses of equipment … Continue reading
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Tagged Burma, Nuclear tourism, Sillamäe
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How many US nuclear weapons need new pits every year? 10, 20, 80 pits a year? How big of an investment is necessary to ensure that can produce the minimal amount of pits. These questions are driving the future of … Continue reading
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Tagged CMRR building, Los Alamos
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Is North Korea’s threat to continue developing its nuclear program “more of the same?” Or will they risk significant international anger should they test a nuclear weapon?
The Santa Fe Institute brought together five people who individually would have had hours of interesting topics to present. Together these individuals had many perspectives and thoughts about the history and implications of the Manhattan Project to give a multi-dimensional … Continue reading
North Korea’s impending launch not supported globally DPRK will be launching a missile next week despite wide-spread global disagreement. The upcoming missile launch to carry a satellite into space is thought to be a cover for a long-range ballistic missile … Continue reading
It’s about a two and half hour drive to White Sands’s Stallion Gate from my home in Santa Fe. I wasn’t sure what to expect, so I brought reading material, having heard stories of long waits to get in. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Nuclear tourism, Trinity Site
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Doyle McManus of the LA Times discusses the role sabotage is playing to keep an Israeli- Iranian war at bay and to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons. He discusses how Iran always seems to be 18 months away from … Continue reading
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