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>>11363102
>>Make some more!
but then the ruskies start making more and we lose our advantage. We also don't have infrastructure for making plutonium on a large scale anymore. The US only expects to make 80 plutonium pits a year. So there won't be much to go around for non-defense use. Again, it's an awful lot of work just to make a parking lot. There are alternatives to nuclear bombs though. NASA's investigating pulsed fission fusion propulsion for getting around the solar system fast:
https://www.nasa.gov/puff
You use fusion to boost a fission reaction. The cool thing is that there's probably a business case for developing the tech to make it possible. The same tech might be used to produce expensive medical isotopes. So there you go, a private nuclear rocket.