Reactor using Tritium for bombs...? - Democratic Underground

imax2268

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Sun Oct-05-03 05:39 PM
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Reactor using Tritium for bombs...?

I saw this on the "Late Breaking News" thread...has anyone else heard of this...?
Does this seem a bit odd that there is a great bruhaha about other countries doing the same thing...

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The single-reactor station, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, will become the government's new source of tritium, a hydrogen isotope that enhances the explosive force of thermonuclear weapons
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oneighty

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Sun Oct-05-03 05:49 PM
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I read the US was buying tritium from Canada, but decided to restart production in the US. Tritium is used to "Boost" a conventinal fission implosion weapon. It creates a fission-fusion-fission reaction A hybrid.

Google fission fusion fission. You will learn much!

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