pandapoo@sh.itjust.workstoHackaday•The US’s New Nuclear Weapons, Mysterious Fogbanks and Inertial Confinement FusionEnglish
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2 months agoI believe the existing warheads all use plutonium that is well past its original rated service life, but have allowed to remain in service based on updated understandings of the plutonium’s rated lifespan, which may, or may not, be coming to an end.
Pretty sure Los Alamos just manufactured the first plutonium pit since the end of the Cold war.
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Good riddance.
And from the bottom of my heart, I hope the man who unintentionally killed his friend, while they killed and tormented bears for sport, is ostracized by his community and remains traumatized for the rest of his miserable worthless life.