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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:21 AM Original message |
GAO Warns Of Threat To Tritium Stockpile |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
1. OMG - "So commercial nuclear power plants are used for making nuclear weapons!" |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And you pay attention to what the doc says |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:44 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. This post appears to have its roots in the Doc's comment |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:03 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. No, it doesn't |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. OK, so what prompted it then? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Are you really that uninformed? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Where is tritium mentioned in your post? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. You diverted the topic to the imcompetent assessment by greg. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. So now it's diverted back to the point of the OP. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. See posts 14 and 15 |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Tritium NOT required |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:40 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Yeah, I know. By asking the question |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:45 AM Response to Reply #35 |
45. When you lack a cogent argument... |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Nothing "prompted" it, I regularly make posts about proliferation |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Here are my observations |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Too bad your desire for technical correctness begins and ends with defending nuclear power. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Actually, my desire for technical correctness extends to GHG assessments as well. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Only if it is in the service of supporting nuclear power. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 12:58 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Just looking for confirmation. You might have found some information I hadn't. nt |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Let me put it this way... |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #17 |
41. My comment was correct. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I don't know many people who would want to work on weapons. |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:52 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Historian Richard Rhodes points out.. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Listen to Valerie Plame Wilson at the Santa Fe Opening of Countdown to Zero |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Monitoring and inspection are excellent ideas. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 06:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. "Nothing to do with nuclear weapons"? |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. sorry, |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. We're all laughing stock to somebody. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. Will man ever learn |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's also used in watches and gun sights |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Actually, tritium does NOT glow in the dark on it's own. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. That makes sense. Similar in concept to a fluorescent light bulb, right? n/t |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 12:27 AM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Pretty much, yeah. |
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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
23. Tritium is also used in the 'initiator' of a fission bomb |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. It's nice, but not necessary. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 08:54 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. But they're not being made without using tritium |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. WRONG AGAIN!! - as always. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 03:37 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Deleted message |
krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 09:01 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. It might well be for security reasons |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 09:07 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. I like the sound of that |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-13-10 11:04 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. According to Wikipedia, yes. It's called "boosting" |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:56 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Evidently, they don't let it become a liability.... |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 10:15 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. The "Sum of All Fears" bomb was thermonuclear |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 12:58 AM Response to Reply #39 |
47. Deleted message |
DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. There are other materials besides tritium... |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. That a FUSION reaction, not a Fission Reaction |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:43 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Someone here paid attention in Science class.. |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
29. Only the last few years.... |
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DrGregory (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 10:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. It looks like DOE decided it didn't need "K" reactor after all |
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