To: Southack
Clean plutonium metal does not burn at room temperature, but the higher temperatures associated with machining plutonium metal have caused numerous fires in the finely-divided plutonium metal machine scraps. Second, the decay of short-lived plutonium-241 in plutonium metal yields americium-241, which emits penetrating gamma radiation." Great, so you have small particles laden with gamma-emitters, finely dispersed into the air, just right for inhaling.
That would suck.
Cheers!
528 posted on
04/28/2006 11:10:48 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
"Great, so you have small particles laden with gamma-emitters, finely dispersed into the air, just right for inhaling. That would suck." ...And they're pyhrophoric...easily self-igniting in the presence of air and just a little heat...plus, plutonium (and uranium for that matter) is extremely brittle...not exactly metals that one would see machined in Joe Average's Machine Shop on Broad Street.
531 posted on
04/28/2006 11:19:55 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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