| ▲ | john_strinlai 2 hours ago | |
>And I thought enriching uranium is something that counties with nukes go to extreme lengths to make it not accessible. low-enrichment (~20%) is what's happening here. the bad stuff, for nukes, is ~90% enrichment. | ||
| ▲ | HPsquared 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
It's the same process either way, and the first few percent are the hardest (as it's super dilute so you need to handle a lot of material). It's much easier to go from 20% to 90%, than it is to get to 20%. | ||