Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
1–10 of 94 posts
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#2[flagged]
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#3A few hundred thousand dollars worth of tech replacing what used to be a massive industrial investment is amazing. And I thought enriching uranium is something that counties with nukes go to extreme lengths to make it not accessible.
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#4So will we start bombing Dallas now?
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#5[flagged]
I’m no expert, but I don’t believe that “high-assay low-enriched uranium” is the sort you can use in nuclear weapons, per it being “low-enriched”. According to the DOE, HALEU only goes up to 20% enrichment [0]. Nuclear weapons, it seems, need it to be enriched beyond 20% [1]
[0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-high-assay-low-enric... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#6[flagged]
I’m no expert, but I don’t believe that “high-assay low-enriched uranium” is the sort you can use in nuclear weapons, per it being “low-enriched”. According to the DOE, HALEU only goes up to 20% enrichment [0]. Nuclear weapons, it seems, need it to be enriched beyond 20% [1] [0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-high-assay-low-enric... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium
Dirty bombs
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#7So this is basically a calutron... a huge mass spectrometer. 1940s technology, upgraded with state-of-the-now control systems, and electromagnets. A formidable engineering work, but more of a breakthrough from legislation and compliance perspective possibly.
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#8So will we start bombing Dallas now?
Might make it more walkable.
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#9[deleted]
Re: Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
#10[flagged]
I’m just waiting for one of these private rocket companies to buy a private nuclear enriching company
We could reach Lex Luther level villainy in no time at all