Comments on: North Korea and Nuclear Forensics https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/10/12/north-korea-and-nuclear-forensics/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: sunbin https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/10/12/north-korea-and-nuclear-forensics/#comment-419 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:21:40 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/north-korea-and-nuclear-forensics/#comment-419 note also that, in theory, it is not difficult for our dear lil kim to fake some krypton (or other element) traces into the chemical bomb—if it was indeed a fake blast. so even if some radioactive traces were found it is still not conclusive—unless the profile of different elements found can be reconstructed to be that of a typical nuke.
(although personally i think a fake bomb is quite unlikely)

]]> By: Crispy_Duck https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/10/12/north-korea-and-nuclear-forensics/#comment-418 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:35:13 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/north-korea-and-nuclear-forensics/#comment-418 s separated plutonium stocks from IAEA inspection data. Not sure if this would be possible for anything reprocessed after 2005, but the Yongbyon reactor’s operating characteristics are fairly well known.</p>]]> It should be possible to earmark most of North Korea’s separated plutonium stocks from IAEA inspection data. Not sure if this would be possible for anything reprocessed after 2005, but the Yongbyon reactor’s operating characteristics are fairly well known.

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