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• Thursday, September 11, 2008 04:06 PM

  Pu-238

  Xanthro--No, in fact, both US and Russian space agencies are currently suffering from an acute shortage of plutonium. Russia has almost all the remaining stockpile, measured in a few kilograms, and that stock pile will be depleted in a few years.

  Wrong, wrong, wrong, neocon:

  Russia has an estimated stockpile of 120-170 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium

  http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_12/USRussia

  120 tons is more than a few kilograms. Were you aware of that, neocon?

  Weapon grade is Pu-239 (purified to less that 7% Pu-240) not Pu-238.

  There are thousands of tons of Pu-239 and Pu-240 made every year. It's obvious I was talking about Plutonium used in space travel, which is Pu-238. That's WHY I MENTIONED SPACE.

  http://www.seds.org/archive/spaceviews/cassini/rtg.html

  http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32320/story.htm

  We have run out and purchased some from Russia last year. Again it's used in atomic batteries.

  You measure things differently in the Alternate Bush Universe?

  The only alternative Earth is the one you reside in. What color is the sky in your World?

  I can keep rubbing your own ignorance in your face until your nose has been ground down to your cheekbones, neocon.

  It's clear to all that I'm far more conversant in the topic than you are.

  —Xanthro Read Xanthro's other letters
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