Lockheed Martin bets big on...nuclear fusion?

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16. Nuclear weapons had NOTHING to do with it.

CRH,

Do you know how much fissile material is in US weapons that came from commercial power plants?

The answer is ZERO.

The US nuclear weapons program had reactors at Hanford and Savannah River that were specially designed "production" reactors. They were specifically designed to make nuclear bomb fuel with no other constraints.

The US nuclear weapons industry had all the bomb-grade material it could use when those reactors were operating. The nuclear weapons industry didn't need anything from the commercial sector AT ALL!!

That's a convenient myth that the anti-nukes like to pander.

In fact, those production reactors worked so well and the nuclear weapons program had so much material that those reactors were eventually shut down.

The nuclear weapons design labs learned how to better design weapons so they needed less bomb fuel, and as new nuclear weapons were made, the out-dated ones had their bomb fuel recycled to the new weapons.

So decades ago; the nuclear weapons program had all the bomb fuel it needed for the foreseeable future and then some. In fact, the nuclear weapons program has enough material to keep bombs operating well into the NEXT century.

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