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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.nz)

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[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

I wonder how cursed is now that pen

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Radiation exposure doesn't cause radioactivity

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

The pen's probably fine, subcritical plutonium isn't that radioactive and while they were certainly tempting fate with that setup they didn't actually cause criticality as it happens.

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