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>>9621558
>derailing for the use in nuclear bombs

the plutonium they pull out of normal light water reactors is too mutt and would just fizzle in an actual nuke. to cook really tasty and pure weapons grade plutonium you need to only leave the uranium in the reactor for a short period of time then eject it not overcook it and leave it in for the entire fuel cycle like reactor grade plutonium

compare the amount of time it takes to refuel a PWR with Hanford B or Windscale where plant workers were constantly manually adding and ejecting fuel canisters without ever shutting down the reactor

if you actually tried to use a PWR to breed weapons grade plutonium your output would be so tiny it would hardly even be worth it(assuming israel didn't bomb your plant long before you ever produce anything)