Make your own nuclear weapon using a laser printer; waste from any nuclear power plant or even from uranium mines is prime bomb material! This sums up the following article, which may disturb even experienced reader as safety illusions created by the nuclear industry inevitably shatters. Be warned and here you go!
Beginning with the shell model of the nucleus, which has not been processed in public on this level since the Nobel-prizes. It is a system that has earned at least 4 different Nobels. The only somewhat recognized one Einstein received 1922 from photoelectric effect. He explained the mechanism of photon inflicted ionization which leads to an electrical ion pair. Then some crucial additions were made by H. Jenssen, M. Göppert-Mayer and Eugen Wigner. Altought they earned their Nobels as well, their work is forgotten by the media and classified. What was so dangerous they discovered that none of it has been published for practical development?
Electron shells contain 4-5 different atom orbitals called s, t, d, p ect. (and these contain the hyperfine levels). An electron can be in any of these states depending on how charged the particles like neutrons are in the nucleus. That defines the ionization potential for ejecting the loosest electron. It can be measured with the Frank-Hertz experiment or calculated from a simple formula eVj=hcT3. Calculations show an absorbation boundary, where the incoming radiation has an energy quantum sufficient to detach the electron for ionization.
When the shells in the nucleus of the atom consist of more neutrons, they cause a slight difference in both weight and the electrical field affecting the outermost valence electrons hyperfine transitions. Extra mass bounds, creates spin interference pattern and masks the electrostatic force of the protons. Resulting chance electron behaviour is called the hyperfine isotope effect. Or longitudinal Zeeman-phenomenon. This may sound nugatory but...
What is the difference between uranium isotopes U-235 and U-238? We are approaching the point. They have an equal amount of protons and electrons and are electrochemically very similiar. Biggest difference is that the isotope U-238 has three extra neutrons as can be seen from the nucleon number. If one more is applied via radiation, the neutron breaks up into proton and electron forming Np-239 which immediately decays into Pu-239 in the same manner. This is how the elements can transform. When making nuclear power, we have to increase the portion of U-235 compared to U-238 which initially is only 0,71%. The process is called isotope enrichment. Weight difference between the isotopes is only one per cent and separating them is extremely difficult. Or was!
Officially an isotope is separated through 3000 massive centrifugal tubes in uraniumhexafluoride form. Process is hazardous, consumes cities of electricity, is inefficient and expensive and so on. Still that sort of cascade produces not much more than 55kg uranium a year. On top of all, now we get to the hot part, it can be totally replaced by a simple mechanism! Let's construct a following apparatus: gas form of uranium, for example, is sprayed like electrons in a kathode ray tube TV-set so that every atom gets subjected to an adjustable laser beam. Precise adjustment is the key, since U-235 and U-238 will lose their valence electron with a slightly different energies. Always only the uranium isotope that has a weaker grip to this electron will be ionized and the one with stronger bound holds the atom together. After that, the substances have a totally different electrical characteristics! All we need is a simple static elecrode to guide the ionized uraniums to another route and voilá! Suddenly we have a suitcase form of isotope separator with stunning efficiency!
The reduction of effort in the enrichment process is concreticly world-tipping! The idea has been theoretically known for a long time already. Introduced by this bunch of Nobel-class scientists and a research carefully covered up, it is probably one of the most dangerous inventions in the world. As it tends to be with nuclear physics. No wonder this is the stuff nuclear power industry doesn't want to read from the internet!
The significance of this matter is emphasized in separating plutonium isotopes, which is even harder than uranium enrichment. To this day, purifying Pu-239 from average nuclear waste to a bomb stage has obviously been too difficult. If the waste is not specificly produced with plutonium in mind, it contains too much of Pu-240 which is a neutron poison and prevents the explosion. But can be removed with the hyperfine level device, no problem! It's probably the only machine in the world capable of doing this!
So, presented above is the technique to compile a nuclear weapon out of any uranium source. It will come out a bit too heavy to carry 55kg plus casing. That's why military has been developing a long time now, an infantry utilized nuclear weapon. For that purpose, there is a tendency to reclaim especially the easily accessible nuclear waste from civil nuclear power plants. Same stuff that Posiva for example is gathering millions of kilos to Olkiluoto. You could have some lightweight bombs out of it, just under the 10kg critical mass of plutonium. The fact that gives shivers to the ruling businessmen in the nuclear power industry whenever their waste products disappear from some outhouse or plastic shed storage! Especially now with the "hyperfine level gizmo" spreading out in the net and potentially tested in any garage. It's time to leave the uranium in the ground.
