time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 4 days ago8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to managementlemmy.worldimagemessage-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 managementlemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square38linkfedilink
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 days agoI wonder how cursed is now that pen
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 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.
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoRadiation exposure doesn’t cause radioactivity
I wonder how cursed is now that pen
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.
Radiation exposure doesn’t cause radioactivity