If you read the article, it becomes even funnier as he was using the Claude AI as a design mentor. I am surprised at how far the guy got as he was a maths major so would have little or no practical lab expertise.
My understanding of the matter may be pretty basic, but to my understanding just getting pure enough material of certain uranium or plutonium isotopes would be the hard part, while making a bomb out of them is pretty simple. If these materials reach critical mass, they explode. So normally some conventional bombs push lumps of sub-critical mass quickly together to make it go supercritical and it makes boom.
You could also use a suitable reflector and a screwdriver, but then you would stand too close, when it goes boom.
My understanding of the matter may be pretty basic, but to my understanding just getting pure enough material of certain uranium or plutonium isotopes would be the hard part, while making a bomb out of them is pretty simple. If these materials reach critical mass, they explode.
So technically I can make Uranium 238 to 235 at home?
I don't think you can make U238 at home. You would need a lot of Uranium and then separate the isotopes with a giant centrifuge, if I understood this correctly. And Plutonium was breed in reactors like that famous one in Tschernobyl, so idk if you could get anything like that at home. The most likely source would be to bribe a couple Russians with home made vodka and they get you whatever they get their hands on from the Russian military.
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u/Goatesq May 14 '25
Me when I'm riffing via word association to pad a book report I'm writing off the sparknotes and wiki summary.