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The New Mexico Independent: NM solicits perceptions of Los Alamos from those who live nearby

  • davebarnes · 1 year ago
    Benito,

    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
  • bleve · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the input Dave. I was going off this definition:

    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...