• voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    10 个月前

    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
      11·
      10 个月前

      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
        6·
        10 个月前

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

      • voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 个月前

        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.