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Quote: Originally posted by Texium  | | Quote: Originally posted by beerwiz | | The small scale way is using MS with a large collector, if properly configured, it can do about 1g in less than 2 days. |
No, it most certainly can’t. Not even a real particle accelerator can achieve that level of yield. Once again, I can’t tell if
this is trolling or pure delusion. |
I believe that is actually in the ballpark of the production rate that was achieved by a single cell in the calutrons in the time of WW2. So, I guess
it is theoretically possible. I might have suspected beerwiz pulled that number from a paper about the calutrons, if only he had shown any evidence of
reading anything at all.
Oh well, good luck building a calutron, beerwiz. Should be easy peazy for someone of your caliber.
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Just for the record. If anyone is actually thinking of making nanometre powdered uranium.
1 The "lumps" will still be too big to let you separate the isotopes by centrifugation.
2 the powder will be spontaneously flammable in air.
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| Quote: Originally posted by phlogiston | | Quote: Originally posted by Texium | | Quote: Originally posted by beerwiz | | The small scale way is using MS with a large collector, if properly configured, it can do about 1g in less than 2 days. |
No, it most certainly can’t. Not even a real particle accelerator can achieve that level of yield. Once again, I can’t tell if
this is trolling or pure delusion. |
I believe that is actually in the ballpark of the production rate that was achieved by a single cell in the calutrons in the time of WW2. So, I guess
it is theoretically possible. I might have suspected beerwiz pulled that number from a paper about the calutrons, if only he had shown any evidence of
reading anything at all. |
My bad. I actually did try to find a source to back me up but wasn't able to do so
in a timely manner, so I settled for a gut feeling as that seemed in keeping with the general quality of this thread. 
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| Quote: Originally posted by beerwiz |
| Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk |
Not if you, as beerwiz, can nanomize it and get perfect separation by putting it in a centrifuge. Then you only need a couple dozen kilograms from
which you can get that last bit of U-235. |
Do you think that will work? I can nanomize it easily in the 2-5nm range.
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I thought the sarcasm would be obvious, but no I don't think it will work. I'm absolutely sure it won't work. You need atoms to be able to move
independently to be able to seperate them by centrifugation. Maybe you should calculate how many atoms there are in a 2nm particle.
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I'm revising my original hypothesis to crystal meth.
We're not banging rocks together here. We know how to put a man back together.
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Here you go Beerwiz. This is how it is done.
Just a little bit of backyard engineering and away you go.
Plutonium Metal Preparation
(Seriously though: this came across my feed and I thought it rather interesting.)
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100 million dollars would be plenty to build something like this. You could even get your money back by selling the extra plutonium to a nonspecific
geographical location for their "nuclear energy projects".
“Alchemy is trying to turn things yellow; chemistry is trying to avoid things turning yellow.” -Tom deP.
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In the video, they conveniently started with plutonium nitrate solution. The actual problem is how to get -that-, or anything containing a significant
amount of plutonium at all.
The part in that video is the easy part.
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You're right, you would need something like a breeder reactor. The OP mentions he has access to an "infinite amount" of U-238.
Honestly though, it feels kind of useless to continue this discussion as this "billionaire researcher" has no idea what he's getting into.
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I don't think we're having this discussion to actually help the allegedly superintelligent billionaire researcher. He just provided a nice prompt to
have some chat among ourselves about interesting things/videos's etc we've learned about these kinds of processes to share with each other. We can
mess with him a bit along the way, as he is doing with us.
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I agree, isotopic separation processes are very interesting. I just feel like any amateur trying them would end up David Hahn chapter 2. We only need
to keep it theoretical.
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What is the smallest reactor possible using natural uranium only? CP1 used some 5 tonnes of uranium metal plus 40 tonnes of uranium oxide, but I'm
sure it can be made smaller using heavy water (1/10 the neutron absorption cross section).
We're not banging rocks together here. We know how to put a man back together.
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What's needed most is protective clothing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_shielding
such as is worn by medical professionals when exposed to radiation  The end
results from the effort applied 
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