▲ 160 ▼ 8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to management (thelemmy.club) submitted 19 hours ago by time2lose@lemmy.world to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 8 points 17 hours ago (1 child) That whole article is fucking terrifying. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] fake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours 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. permalink fedilink source parent