Aviandelight comments on 8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to management

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

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[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

That whole article is fucking terrifying.

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[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

The 'good' news is that criticality incidents like this aren't at risk of nuclear explosion or meltdown. The results are horrifying, but limited to the people in the immediate vicinity.

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