These 80 tons have the potential to be made into a munition that could be used against the same enemy that peppered the landscape with nuclear waste, read on ..
Build Your Own Nuke - From the armaments of shot down attack helicopters or from spent ordinance recovered at battle sites find Depleted Uranium rounds, acquire redundant 175 mm High Explosive artillery shells, reduce the captured DU to swart with a lathe, remove the fuse and base plate from the shells and drill holes into the HE.
In an argon purged environment to prevent the DU swart from spontaneously combusting, pack it into the drill holes then replace the base plate, fit the primer and detonator and voila a home made nuke .. reason the tremendous heat and pressure generated when the HE detonates inside the artillery shell case, enriches the DU and precipitates a nuclear blast.
Not all uranium is equal. The 235 isotope is what is needed for nukes. Uranium is about 0.3% u235 by weight. Deleted uranium has had the useful isotope extracted. That is the enrichment process.
[ - ] Reunto 1 point 9 hoursJun 18, 2025 08:21:25 ago (+1/-0)
DU is predominantly U238, but the bigger question is for a country that claims to have no nuclear program, how did they come to acquire DU to begin with?
[ + ] TankTinker
[ - ] TankTinker -2 points 14 hoursJun 18, 2025 04:03:50 ago (+0/-2)*
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Build Your Own Nuke - From the armaments of shot down attack helicopters or from spent ordinance recovered at battle sites find Depleted Uranium rounds, acquire redundant 175 mm High Explosive artillery shells, reduce the captured DU to swart with a lathe, remove the fuse and base plate from the shells and drill holes into the HE.
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In an argon purged environment to prevent the DU swart from spontaneously combusting, pack it into the drill holes then replace the base plate, fit the primer and detonator and voila a home made nuke .. reason the tremendous heat and pressure generated when the HE detonates inside the artillery shell case, enriches the DU and precipitates a nuclear blast.
[ + ] jerkofalltrades
[ - ] jerkofalltrades 2 points 12 hoursJun 18, 2025 06:00:09 ago (+2/-0)
If implosion alone turns it critical why do people bother with enrichment?
Wouldn't you need a complex array of precisely timed detonators?
Wouldn't everybody and their mum have nukes if it was that easy?
[ + ] TheYiddler
[ - ] TheYiddler 0 points 10 hoursJun 18, 2025 07:34:36 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Reunto
[ - ] Reunto 1 point 9 hoursJun 18, 2025 08:21:25 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] mikenigger
[ - ] mikenigger 1 point 7 hoursJun 18, 2025 10:16:52 ago (+1/-0)
lol