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Marlin:
Idaho school can’t find small bit of weapons-grade plutonium


https://apnews.com/63df894fc6c94799b944f6bf00ff056f/Idaho-school-can't-find-small-bit-of-weapons-grade-plutonium

TVA:
All Plutonium is technically weapons grade

Marlin:

--- Quote from: TVA on May 06, 2018, 10:36 ---All Plutonium is technically weapons grade

--- End quote ---


So blended reactor fuel is weapons grade plutonium? PuBe neutron sources are weapons grade plutonium? Commercial reactors produce and burn plutonium is that weapons grade plutonium?


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atomicarcheologist:
Well, if it's 238, it's content is 1.712000E+013pCi.

Chimera:
The article makes it sound like they lost a source.

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