cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48838029
Today, in things I’d read on a fading screen in a half destroyed building in a Fallout game…
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48838029
Today, in things I’d read on a fading screen in a half destroyed building in a Fallout game…
Yes, “weapons grade” has a higher purity being almost entirely made of fissile isotope Pu-239
“Reactor grade” has a greater variety of isotopes.
The functional difference is that the higher purity is required to make nuclear bombs, hence “weapons grade.” Purity was a significant hurdle in nuclear arms development and one if the reasons the US got the bomb before Germany or the USSR which both struggled to get sufficient purity.