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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 days ago
You know, something I always wondered was what would have happened if the core was allowed to stay in Prompt Critical configuration?
The design provided the extreme rate of fission at T=0, which in a bomb is when it gets compressed (the density increases). But that density is relatively uniform, the demon core didn’t change properties.
Normally I’d suspect it would just melt, but since it was in a neutron reflector, it should increase the rate of fission as T>0. Hence the chain reaction.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ask the goddamn Russians.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 days ago
Jeez. Talk about an area denial weapon. That’s horrifying. Just massive deadly glowing sphere of doom that’s both too energetic and not energetic enough to stop the chain reaction. That’s incredible.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Try making this situation anything but worse.”
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
I’m surprised they had a robot radiation hardened enough to actually try. I’ve got to look up what they did. The whole room it was in was a neutron reflector, the robot would be, and the interference would be crazy from the decay products.
Wonder what they would have done if the robot couldn’t do it.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 days ago
Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.
Camille@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Thank you so much, this series looks awesome, I can’t wait to binge it
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Going to warn you, a couple of the orphaned source stories are…not wonderful.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 hours ago
Reading investigation the IAEA did on the Sarov guy, it sounds like he didn’t die painfully. It would have fucking sucked, but the only pain he described was a headache and when they physically examined him in a few places.
He died of heart failure, but they were unable to tell what that really meant, the cell structure of everything in his body had been destroyed.