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The State of New Mexico has organized "listening sessions" to evaluate the issues and perceptions of residents who live near Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Notice of these sessions appeared a week after an AP story reported northern New Mexico resident% ... Continue reading »
NM solicits perceptions of Los Alamos from those who live nearby
Started by nmindependent · 9 months ago
The State of New Mexico has organized "listening sessions" to evaluate the issues and perceptions of residents who live near Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Notice of these sessions appeared a week after an AP story reported northern New Mexico resident% ... Continue reading »
12 months ago
You can not have a "plutonium pit" as PIT is an acronym for Plutonium Implosion Trigger. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_we... for more details.
,dave
12 months ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_des...
"The core of an implosion weapon â" the fissile material and any reflector or tamper bonded to it â" is known as the pit. Some weapons tested during the 1950s used pits made with U-235 alone, or in composite with plutonium,[8] but all-plutonium pits are the smallest in diameter and have been the standard since the early 1960s."
As well as the definition cited in the AP report that I cited:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hLlCrUKKwQnr...