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minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 year agoSince its critical mass is 52kg, a 100kg of uranium-235 would make a mushroom cloud the moment you put it all in one bag.
minus-squarefelbane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoI like where your head is at, but that’s not how criticality works. It’d definitely be deadly, but wouldn’t mushroom cloud.
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThis. The Demon Core experiments did not cause full on explosions. Just massive lethal doses of radiation.
minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoGood point. Just read more about it and it seems to require certain conditions to trigger a fission reaction the way I described it. E.g temperature, pressure, shape of the payload. Still, while these variables are uncertain, I wouldn’t rule it out.
Since its critical mass is 52kg, a 100kg of uranium-235 would make a mushroom cloud the moment you put it all in one bag.
I like where your head is at, but that’s not how criticality works.
It’d definitely be deadly, but wouldn’t mushroom cloud.
This. The Demon Core experiments did not cause full on explosions. Just massive lethal doses of radiation.
Good point. Just read more about it and it seems to require certain conditions to trigger a fission reaction the way I described it. E.g temperature, pressure, shape of the payload.
Still, while these variables are uncertain, I wouldn’t rule it out.