Re: Russia: Iran May Seek More Reactors

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

At 12:03 PM 1/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I suppose because the RMBK can be easily
>used to produce weapons grade plutonium 

In what way is the RMBK specially suited for this purpose? I thought that
any source of thermal neutrons could be used to make Pu-239.

mike
Mike McNaughton
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