On the practicalities of producing a nuclear weapon using high-assay low-enriched uranium
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2408.16013
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2408.16013
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv240816013C
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Popular Physics;
- Physics - Physics and Society
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 1 figure