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4578504 No.4578504 [Reply] [Original]

How to make a homemade nuke?

>> No.4578509

Put a big chunk of pitchblende in a microwave. After 10-15 minutes on high, it will detonate, destroying at least a city block.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

>> No.4578513

>duct tape TNT and U-235 together
>find deuterium
>duct tape the deuterium to the TNT and U-235
>light the TNT
>run
>???
>profit

>> No.4578514

it's all in the public domain.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Progressive

though that's about H bombs, and fission bomb is probably easier

hard bit is making enriched uranium, or plutonium

>> No.4578520

>>4578514
>2012
>still thinking it's hard to get a mass spectrosoper large enough to separate uranium

>> No.4578522

Get some fissile material, a bit less than two times the critical mass would be awesome.
Arrange the material into a cylinder and a cylindrical sleeve of similar mass that fits the aforementioned cylinder.
Use explosives to accelerate said sleeve to the cylinder in such a way as to surround it.

Chain reaction!

>> No.4578533

Put some explosives in a microwave

>> No.4578542

Call up homeland security and ask them. They know a lot about that kind of thing.

>> No.4578553

>>4578520
Can not UF6 with ease.

>> No.4578645

>>4578553
That's really not the problem here...

Enriching uranium with a mass spectroscope is a pretty hopeless proposition. You'd never get a useful amount.

>> No.4578652
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4578652

>homey fucking did.
HEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHERO
HEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHEROHERO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

>> No.4578657
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4578657

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/3/30/the-atomic-trucker-how-a-truck-driver-rebuilt-the-atomic-bomb-
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>>4578652
did you even read the article? he only built part of a reactor with smoke alarms.

this guy, a trucker built most of an atomic bomb and is the only amateur to have done so.

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4578674

Taylor Wilson built a fusion reactor in his garage.

http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear_fusion_reactor.html

>> No.4578702

>>4578674
>>4578674
Taylor Wilson is a dumbass who followed instructions from a website and had his parents buy all the parts. why he was on TED is beyond me

>> No.4578720

>>4578657
That's talking about his second offense. He achieved more with his first offense.

It's true, though, that he never built a real nuclear reactor that could sustain a chain reaction. He just built a simple radioisotope neutron source and pointed it at thorium and uranium samples. He did breed some nuclear fuel and trigger fission reactions, but it was a long way from what we'd normally think of as a reactor.

As for the trucker, he just built a completely nonfunctional model of his guess at what would be an atomic bomb.

I think if any hobbyists have been clever enough to build themselves a real nuclear reactor, they've also been clever enough to keep it a secret.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone managed it. Some research and educational reactors are very simple. Read about SLOWPOKE-2 sometime. It's basically a cage of uranium/aluminum alloy capped with beryllium plates in a pool of water.

Not much you can do with this kind of reactor other than make a dangerous radioactive mess, though.

>> No.4578732

/k/ here, just buy a glock, any model will do, and shoot it in your backyard a couple times.

>> No.4578796

>>4578702
Moreover, he had support from various professionals who flat-out gave him a lot of expensive and hard-to-get equipment, instructed him, and supervised him.

Mostly, he was a kid who didn't know that simple and inexpensive fusion-based neutron sources had already been on the market for ages, thought it would be a big deal to make his own, and chanced to come to the attention of a lot of highly relevant adults who chose to play along and encourage him rather than correct him.

It's a dancing pig story. The story isn't that the pig dances well, but that you wouldn't expect a pig could dance.

>> No.4578797

>>4578509
can you back that up?

>> No.4578806

>>4578797
Safety not guaranteed.

I have only done this once before.