▲ 173 ▼ 8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to management (lemmy.world) submitted 1 month ago by time2lose@lemmy.world to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world 35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (2 children) I wonder how cursed is now that pen permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gnutrino@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Radiation exposure doesn't cause radioactivity permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Radiation exposure doesn't cause radioactivity permalink fedilink source parent
