ERRORS in rebuttal to "Pandora's Promise"

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23. WRONG!!!

kristopher states:
Contrary to your wild claims of the other day on this topic, the National Nuclear Security Administration has the best scientists available at the DOE (and the national labs) to work with in meeting their mandate.

kristopher,

You are only quoting DOE and NNSA; the people in Washington, DC

The people in Washington are the administrators. You are quoting administrators.

The scientists are at the national labs; NOT in Washington; at the labs.

In particular, when it comes to nuclear weapons work and classified information; that information is found ONLY at the Labs. Washington DC leaks. So they keep the classified information AT the Labs.

The people in Washington deal with the budget, and overseeing conformance with applicable laws. They also are the public interface; they draft reports for the general public based on the more technical reports that come from the labs. That's the type of report that you are reading.

I'm referencing a particular report; that LLNL did to address just the question about the IFR and proliferation. As Senators Simon(D) and Kempthorne(R) stated to the NY Times; the IFR is MORE proliferation resistant than once-through reactor fuel, and is, as Dr. Till relates; it is IMPOSSIBLE to make nuclear weapons with IFR-produced Plutonium.

I explained that in another post; where I discussed the role of Pu-240 and the implosion scheme of Neddermeyer.

I see again that you don't understand that. Why should I be surprised; you don't understand the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics either, and they teach that in high school. Nuclear weapons physics is beyond even the University level.

Now where did you get that University degree that gives you the credentials for understanding this complex field?

Speak up; I didn't hear you. I thought NOT!

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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