They did restart production. At a TVA reactor. I'm not really sure what you're disagreeing with me about.![]()
I was disagreeing with you that they probably wouldn't have enough left over from the Cold War.
They did restart production. At a TVA reactor. I'm not really sure what you're disagreeing with me about.![]()
I was disagreeing with you that they probably wouldn't have enough left over from the Cold War.
<shrug> I don't know how big the DoE's tritium stockpile is. I can only say that they did, in fact, start producing tritium at Watts Bar Unit 1. And I have a hard time figuring out why they'd do that if they didn't need it.
At the very least the British could put into production the improved Red Beard with the 45kt composite core as both a stand alone weapon and a primary. Red Beard was a practical and sustainable weapon that served until 1970 when enough WE.177s were produced, I assume that the follow up would be successful as well.
I don't know about weaponised secondary but the British did successfully test several designs so presumably could have produced a suitable version. I do wonder how long it would take compared to simply producing the W28 which they found unsuitable anyway?