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At the risk of getting us all put on a list, could you say some more about what machining the stuff safely involves?
by blindstitch 2y ago
At the risk of getting us all put on a list, could you say some more about what machining the stuff safely involves?
- GlenTheMachine 2y agoYou need to run your machine shop like a clean room. Laminar airflow, high grade air filters, glove boxes, etc. Anyone who has ever even walked through a machine shop will know how challenging that would be. You probably aren’t going to do it in your garage. For uranium there’s an actual public US government report. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4284913 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4284913 And here is an interesting write up on how hard it was to manufacture the plutonium spheres for The Gadget at Los Alamos: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1913035 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1...