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I thought there was a story of Richard Feynman going round Oak Ridge and realizing that they were getting close to a critical mass of stuff stored in adjacent r

• SlickNixon 4y ago
  >Feynman had discovered that the Y-12 Plant was storing uranium nitrate solution enriched in U-235 in drums holding 300 to 3,000 gallons. After performing some calculations, the young physicist determined that the drums were placed in potentially unsafe arrangements in a number of buildings.[0] Looks like fluids again, not warheads. https://exploreoakridge.com/how-a-26-year-old-physicist-may-have-saved-oak-ridge-from-nuclear-disaster/ https://exploreoakridge.com/how-a-26-year-old-physicist-may-...