Dark Circle

Full of inaccuracies; a film obviously made for political purposes

     

Where to begin?

First of all, the only nuclear reactors in the world that use any real degree of plutonium are the liquid-sodium-cooled reactors in military ships; there are few applications outside of nuclear weapons that use plutonium, a by-product of “stacking” a commercial nuclear power plant that utilizes U235 as its fuel with U238, which is relatively stable and absorbs neutrons to become Pu239.

Putting plutonium in a commercial nuclear plant’s fuel rod would result in too-unstable power and heat production, considerable problems with fast flux neutrons, and would be as unstable as nitroglycerin being warmed outside in the sun on a hot day.

The Hiroshima weapon was made almost exclusively with U235 (though using U238 as a jacket and neutron reflector) in the weapon. Sorry, no plutonium except in the instant after the weapon’s explosion (where U238 absorbed some neutrons from the fissioning U235). Source: “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” by Richard Rhodes; “The Curve of Binding Energy” by John McPhee, just two of the texts you

These are but a few of the inaccuracies in this documentary.

If you’re going to make a movie for world disarmament, do your research and get the “facts” right. inaccuracy results in the film losing credibility, veracity, and integrity. This documentary is little better than a high school book report, and is obviously intended for the purposes of some hidden agenda. Hint: there is no such thing as “safe” nuclear power — for any purposes.