• voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • felbane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I like where your head is at, but that’s not how criticality works.

      It’d definitely be deadly, but wouldn’t mushroom cloud.

      • Iron Lynx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        This. The Demon Core experiments did not cause full on explosions. Just massive lethal doses of radiation.