Thursday, June 12, 2025

I Was Wondering About This

I was assuming the uranium was being contributed as some liquid for such as uranium chloride or uranium iodide but ChatGPT says Iran is centrifuging uranium hexafluoride 

If so, those bunker busters will do enormous damage even after the explosions end.  UF6 is so corrosive that DuPont invented Teflon to withstand the corrosion of valves and surfaces.  This is done at pretty temperatures, I think so releasing several thousand liters of UF6 is going to look like a Hollywood action movie thst is really over the top.  I doubt there will be many survivors of the explosions, either human or machine. 

2 comments:

  1. When the Manhattan Project separated out the various isotopes to enrich the uranium to make the bombs, what form was it in?

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    1. Uranium hexafluoride. This is why Teflon exists.

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