What do we know about Nuclear atom craft werks? How do they really work?

Question

Okay, every one now a day's seem to talk about Nuclear atom craft werks. See Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. What is it all about? Is it really just to create a more efficient way of energy consumption? Or just another way to blow up at each other faces when we do not agree about something? Whats your opinion on that matter?

Aman you are rude. Besides the spelling If you speak German as a first language and Spanish as a third, than you can comment on language errors. Otherwise it's a legimiate question! It's not for home work. Have a pleasant day!

Answer 1

To make a nuclear reactor you need enriched uranium which you can buy on the open market.

To make a weapon you need either plutonium which can be a by product of a nuclear reactor or very enriched uranium. Plutonium bombs are smaller and more efficients and is the route that most countries go down. However you still need to before some kind of enrichment. As enriched uranium can be bought from the EU or Russia why would you need an enrichment plant except to make weapons grade material. That's the issue. Why does Iran want to an enrichment plant and most of the world is assuming it's to make a weapon and to be honest I think that they are right - about Iran making a weapon - not Iran being right in having one.
The big question is how far Israel will go to stop the Iranians

Answer 2

My opinion is that you should do your own homework on this issue and learn to spell "nuclear power plant" in English.

As far as the theory goes, they work just as advertised. Uranium in, energy plus fission products out. No big deal. Most of the plutonium used for weapons came out of specially designed breeders. Those are different from your regular power plant, although one can get weapons grade material from pretty much any commercial reactor in use today. It's just a tad harder.

We have an order of magnitude more plutonium today than we ever will need to blow up our civilization. No country would pay a dime to build more reactors for weapons grade material production which already has plutonium around. Countries which don't have that material, yet, are mostly interested in it to get political leverage. Once they have the weapons they can't really use them for anything and the proliferation threat card goes away.