time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 5 days ago8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to managementimagemessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up1194arrow-down118
arrow-up1176arrow-down1image8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to managementtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square38linkfedilink
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoThe pen’s probably fine, subcritical plutonium isn’t that radioactive and while they were certainly tempting fate with that setup they didn’t actually cause criticality as it happens.
The pen’s probably fine, subcritical plutonium isn’t that radioactive and while they were certainly tempting fate with that setup they didn’t actually cause criticality as it happens.