From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:59 AM UTC-7, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 5/27/16 9:31 AM, trident wrote:   
   > > As above.   
   > >   
   >   
   > 	Half-life. You have to manufacture the stuff and it's inherently   
   > exceedingly unstable, so gathering enough of it together to make a nuke,   
   > and then KEEPING IT HANDY long enough without decay products destroying   
   > your nuke's viability, is really pretty much infeasible.   
      
     Yeah, uranium and plutonium offer the best balance of long half-life and   
   fissionability. Until we figure out how to do fission-on-demand, anyway.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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