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The Pu is from an old soviet smoke detector, containing roughly 40μg of Pu, which creates a few μCi of radiation needed for smoke detection. For fission, you ne
by deng 1y ago
The Pu is from an old soviet smoke detector, containing roughly 40μg of Pu, which creates a few μCi of radiation needed for smoke detection. For fission, you need at least several kg of pure Pu239. For a "dirty bomb", any amount will do, of course.
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoThe trick is to rob the smoke detector plant for their plutonium stash.
- nandomrumber 1y ago> For a "dirty bomb", any amount will do, of course. By that logic, one smoke detector is enough? I probably wouldn't want to eat a smoke detector, but if one was added to a bomb I probably wouldn't be very concerned about the impact of the smoke detector.
- gus_massa 1y agoUsing that definition of dirty bomb, a firecracker inside a banana is enough. Perhaps it should include a minimal threshold, like it's enougt to kill 1 person in the linear no threshold model.