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The Rumsfeld Mini-nuke Design

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Feb 22, 2005, 8:19:24 PM2/22/05

The Rumsfeld Mini-nuke
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edddy Feb 22, 5:04 pm show options

I gave up on making the beam to enrich more
efficient. A good alpha, or proton beam can
be made to do the job. Just adjust the energy
to the resonant location.

i.e. hope the resonance occurs.

Change source materials if necessary.

So an efficient mini-nuke core.

A key ingredient is the nice case for the
core. And to remove the core and still
have the rest of the nuke almost ready to go
is a feature.

Efficiency means a case out of plated material.
A small layer to stop contamination.

So take the plating process and make it
enrich at the same time.

A small current will move the elements slightly
differently. And to find the bath medium and
electroparameters to enrich is a wish idea.

Back to efficient cores.

Assume a 2-d slab compression.

Make the case perform a function.

This is hard work here.

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Astericks mean electroplated metal while
the x's mean Uranium.

Drill two holes about ten inchs appart.

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a b

At a or b holes are drilled, at both.

Making the holes plated also eliminate
slight contamination at the bolt holes.

Now the slab can be bolted.

Place the core on the steel slab and bolt it.

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SSSSSSSSSSaSSSSSSSSSSbSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Now cover the top in explosives to compress
the slab against the steel. Inertia keeps the steel
from moving.

Now vary the slab size experimentally
in order to get the time delay required.

And find ten inchs thick gives no movement for
one microsecond.

So assembly is one usec,!!!!!!!!!!

Now place the slab against a dam the thing to
be destroyed and get free assembly time.

A big massive granite block would also increase
assembly.

So this is a lightweight, target involving
mini-nuke.

edddy Feb 22, 5:07 pm show options

A 1 ton yeild is increasable to 100 tons
by simple placement.

A hard target can be addressed to
help destroy itself.

edddy Feb 22, 5:12 pm show options

A trigger of interior polonium/Be
can be added.

Tenpercent uranium and
1000 Ci of Polonium???

A sharp neutron pulse of
1e10 neutrons will fire off.

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