Dirty Bombs are made with highly radioactive material from fission reactors (nuclear waste, fuel rods, etc).
Lithium-6 is not highly radioactive so it wouldn't likely be used in a Dirty Bomb.
This is the reason FUSION power would be so important in the future. #1 the waste from Fusion reactors has much shorter radioactive half lives. #2 the products from Fusion can't be used to make nuclear weapons. #3 Fusion would be cleaner and safer provided we had the technology to enclose the reaction under tremendous heat/pressure.
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Dirty Bombs are made with highly radioactive material from fission reactors (nuclear waste, fuel rods, etc).
Lithium-6 is not highly radioactive so it wouldn't likely be used in a Dirty Bomb.
This is the reason FUSION power would be so important in the future.
#1 the waste from Fusion reactors has much shorter radioactive half lives.
#2 the products from Fusion can't be used to make nuclear weapons.
#3 Fusion would be cleaner and safer provided we had the technology to enclose the reaction under tremendous heat/pressure.