Wheras lead and tungsten dust are just fine? BTW, ordinary topsoil contains several tonnes of undepleted Uranium per sq mile. We eat it all the time.
-- Dirk The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium http://www.theconsensus.org
Just because Bush didn't get As in school doesn't mean he is not smart. In school, he was the popular guy, rather than the wonk. People who can pull others together are pretty important in this society. With Clinton, we had both policy smarts and political smarts. That is clearly an edge, particularly when interacting with wonks who try to impress you with their knowledge to bend you to their will. Clinton knew enough to probe people like this, and determine whether they were lying to him. Bush apparently can't do this, and so ends up being manipulated into corners by his advisors, who ARE smart policy guys with their own agendas. They get what they want, he plays the cheerleader, and ends up with a 35% approval rating. I suspect poppy hired Cheney to protect him from this sort of thing, but Cheney turned out to be one of the guys with big agendas, so that didn't work out.
-- Regards, Bob Monsen One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics. - Luitzen Brouwer
Heh. I love the sign-off: "Rick Moran is the proprietor of the blog Rightwing Nuthouse".
Know thyself, huh? ;-)
So, I looked up, "What is Yellowcake, anyway?" and got this:
which mentions: "Yellowcake is a first step toward enriched uranium, but it's a long way from being weapons-grade. The powder must still be converted into uranium hexafluoride before it can be enriched, the process that makes the sort of uranium used by nuclear power plants and bomb-makers alike. Because UF6 can be easily turned into a gas, it is ideal for enrichment, which must be done in a gaseous state."
And to do that, you have to run enough UF6 through centrifuges and stuff to still separate out the U-235, which is, lessee ...
Have Fun making your bomb for the fourth! ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@example.net:
Iraq's ore is yellowcake.Not rock mixed with uranium.
-- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net
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