• felbane@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I like where your head is at, but that’s not how criticality works.

    It’d definitely be deadly, but wouldn’t mushroom cloud.

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      7 months ago

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

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      7 months ago

      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.