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Weapons grade plutonium has min. 93 % plutonium-239.
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How much cost 1kg plutonium?
The cost of weapons grade plutonium (more than 93 % Pu-239) is appreciated at 4 000 000 US $/kg.
What element is used for nuclear weapons?
Plutonium
Why plutonium is important?
Plutonium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors to produce electric energy. Also plutonium is indispensable for nuclear weapons.
Does plutonium have a weakness?
Plutonium is very useful in nuclear weapons or nuclear fuels but is toxic, radioactive and expensive.
What metallic element is used in nuclear weapons?
Uranium or plutonium
What is the Plutonium isotope composition of a nuclear bomb?
Weapons grade plutonium has min. 90 % plutonium 239 and max. 1 % plutonium 240.
What is the difference between fuel of nuclear power plants and the fuel needed to construct a nuclear weapon?
Reactor grade material is usable in most nuclear power plants. Weapons grade material is required for nuclear weapons. For uranium the difference between reactor grade and weapons grade is the level of enrichment: less than 20% uranium-235 is reactor grade, greater than 20% uranium-235 (greater than 90% is prefered) is weapons grade. For plutonium the difference between reactor grade and weapons grade is the level of contamination with plutonium-241: any amount of plutonium-241 is OK for reactor grade, only low levels of plutonium-241 are acceptable in weapons grade as its spontaneous fission rate can cause the bomb to fizzle.
How much is plutonium worth?
Approx. 4ooo US $ per gram for nuclear weapons quality plutonium; the price for nuclear reactors grade plutonium is lower.
What are the differences between Plutonium production reactors and Power generator reactors?
Plutonium production energy are designed to produce weapons grade plutonium, not electric energy or heat.
If you have your own nuclear power plant is it easier to obtain weapons grade uranium or weapons grade plutonium?
No nuclear plant I know of uses weapons grade fissile material. This is strictly controlled for military use only.
How much money dose plutonium cost?
The price of nuclear weapons grade plutonium is approx. 4 000 US $ for one gram, in 2010.
How much cost 1kg plutonium?
The cost of weapons grade plutonium (more than 93 % Pu-239) is appreciated at 4 000 000 US $/kg.
Can nuclear power plants produce materials that can be converted to nuclear weapons?
most cannot, as to produce weapons grade plutonium the fuel cycle must be made very very short. however soviet RBMK reactors and the US hanford N reactor were designed explicitly to produce both electric power and weapons grade plutonium.
How is Plutonium for atomic weapons currently obtained?
Plutonium for nuclear weapons is obtained in special nuclear reactors for plutonium-239.
Does a handicap person has a right to go into any business and ask them to charge his wheelchair?
Only if it runs on weapons grade plutonium.
What is the economic worth of plutonium?
Applications of plutonium: * explosive in nuclear weapons * nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors * the isotope 238Pu is used as energy source in spacecrafts or other applications (radioisotope thermoelectric generators); the chemical form is plutonium dioxide. * neutron generator, as Pu-Be sourceThe price of weapons grade plutonium is cca. 4 000 $/g.
What is the mass number of the isotopes of plutonium?
The mass number of the most important isotope of plutonium (239Pu) is 239. For the other isotopes see the link below; mass number = number of protons + number of neutrons).
