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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Aurum who wrote (28473)	11/26/1997 9:41:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35569

Aurum, I suspect you are right. The reraction would have made a slightly explosive fizzle that would vapourize most of the metals mass, and after that the separation would allow it to fall below criticality. The burst of Gamma, and neutrons would have made a lethal zone of 25-100 meters in diameter, depending on the buildings construction(wood, brick, cement, thickness etc). I read about it in one of the books by Feinman I think?? After that they treated the stuff with more respect. The Russian had a pond full of waste go critical and boil, and as it bolied it lost more water and got hotter as the concentration increased until it had a small explosion that scattered things and it stopped. The Russians suppressed this news, but CIA knew, but also said nothing. Bill