Max Schalz
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Max Schalz
@maxschalz.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Nuclear Verification and Disarmament Group @RWTH Aachen University | nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, physics | posts mostly in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇱🇺
I guess – eng technesch Limitatioun ass et op jidde Fall net. An déi 400kg kann een natierlech och als Verhandlungsmass huelen
June 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Vlt och interessant: Wisou 60%, dat ass eng komesch Zuel. Wier theoretesch waffefäheg, mee ontypesch. Little Boy hat schonns ~80%, hautzedags geet een dovun aus dass all Uran-Waffen iwwert 90% sinn.

Technesch wier dat keen Défi: een deen op 3% ureechere kann, kann och op 20, 60, 90% ureecheren.
June 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Am Prinzip jo.

E puer Ausnamen: Fir Forschungsreaktoren, U-Boot/Schëffsreaktoren a Produktioun vu medezineschen Isotoper (fir zB Kriibsdiagnosen, mengen ech) kann een och ~90% ugeräicherten Uran notzen. Et ginn awer och Alternativen mat ~20% Uranuräicherung.
June 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposted by Max Schalz
RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Sinn net iwwerzeegt vun där Logik. D'Leit wëllen dach net an de Krich well se Angscht em hiert Liewen hunn, an net well si an der EU e gutt, "subventionéiert" Liewe féiere kënnen – dat steet d'ailleurs ee Saz virdrun am Artikel?
May 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Kann et sinn, dass d'Audiospuer net verfügbar ass? Weder an ärem Link nach an der Mediathéik?
November 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Right, I use roundabout the same temperature. 30 to 40 min in the Dutch oven with the lid on, then with the lid removed (very roughly 15 to 20 min, until the desired degree of browning is reached).

I am still wondering about how altitude comes into play.
November 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
How long are you baking the bread and at which temperature?

Typically, v high temperatures result in a golden/brown/black crust (depending on baking time) which "seals off" the inner part of the bread and prevents drying out. In that sense, I'd be more worried about baking long at lower temps
November 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM
This work also shows that NFC simulations can be used to perform robust, transparent and reproducible fissile material estimates which can easily be updated when new information becomes available.
October 23, 2024 at 11:56 AM
We find that by the end of 2022, Pakistan could have produced 370–660 kg plutonium and 3090–5540 kg HEU (depending on the scenario); and that the once-through NFC is increasingly unlikely.
October 23, 2024 at 11:56 AM
In the NFC w/o uranium recycling, Pakistan would have to stop HEU production around 2015 bc. of uranium shortage (dash-dotted blue curve).

In the models w/ uranium recycling, HEU can be produced alongside plutonium (solid orange and dashed green curves).
October 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM
👉1st scenario is a once-through nuclear fuel cycle (NFC) with no uranium recycling.
👉2nd scenario: 1st NFC + irradiated uranium gets recycled and enriched to HEU
👉3rd scenario: 1st NFC + irradiated uranium gets recycled, mixed with HEU to 0.72% and reused as reactor fuel
October 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Pakistan is reported to have a natural uranium shortage, but has also expanded its nucl. programme (👉3 new reactors). To investigate this contradiction, we developed 3 different scenarios + modeled them with the simulation softwares Cyclus and Serpent2.
October 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM