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8 Rods of Pu-239 (~6kg), enough for criticality if they touched, taken by Los Alamos workers to ‘show off’ production amounts to management (lemmy.world)
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[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That whole article is fucking terrifying.

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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.