On the practicalities of producing a nuclear weapon using high-assay low-enriched uranium
Popular Physics
2024-08-30 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
It was recently argued by Kemp et al. that HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium, or uranium enriched up to 19.75\%) can conceivably be used to produce a nuclear weapon and on this basis civilian enrichment limits should be lowered to 10% or 12%. We find their argument unconvincing in several respects.
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@article{arxiv.2408.16013,
title = {On the practicalities of producing a nuclear weapon using high-assay low-enriched uranium},
author = {P. Cosgrove and N. Read},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16013},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure