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> It's very, very expensive

May be you mean uranium enrichment? When plutonium is already available, like in Ukraine, it is completely different game - you just need to chemically separate plutonium from the spent fuel. That is the only noticeable expense - needs facility with safety protections, etc. Or just a few people willing to die for the Motherland. The rest is putting charges around the plutonium sphere and timing them correctly with electronics. That is basically all. Couple weeks really :)



I hear that plutonium is a metallurgical nightmare to work with.

Which is fortunate, because it's also quite easy to make plutonium by exposing (natural or depleted) uranium to neutrons…




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