Hey patrick why don't you have a go yourself like this boy scout did ;-D http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:42:48 To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: OT: metal, money, changes, bleg On 04/04/2011 04:14 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > >> So just to make sure I am correct here... All nuclear weapons require an >> assisted explosion? >> > Yes, you need both high heat and high pressure to force the fissile > material into the required chain reaction. > > So, just having enough Pu-239 in one location is definitely, categorically not going to be able to cause a nuclear explosion? Not even a little one that might cause a rapid escalation? >> It's categorically impossible for Plutonium-239 to >> become critical without assistance from an explosion of some other fuel >> or high energy source? >> >> You don't have super heated Pu-239 actively being created in a semi >> critical chain reaction. If it gets unstable there is not enough neutron >> flux to make baby go boom. >> > As explained here: > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Criticality_accident > > Gotta love wikipedia. Instant truth just add complement set ;-) > there have been a number of criticality accidents, but they always > create so much heat that the fissile material expands and the conditions > cease to be critical. > > So far so good, nuclear physics being of course entirely understood and modelled and no gaps exist is current knowledge of the fundamental processes involved :-) -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
