Highly-enriched uranium is usually in metal form, often cast into billets. Density of uranium (whether 238 or 235 isotope) is about 19 g/cm³; by contrast, lead is about 11.3 g/cm³.
Would that amount react to a nuke or would it
just scatter it.
Did anyone ever test a scenario such as this?
A nuke set off in close proximity to tons of
enriched uranium?
Just curious.
Thanks... So it would seem that fifty tons of U is an even smaller package than I was thinking. Small in size... Even though you couldn’t carry it all in one pickup truck, it would still fit. Not that this means anything one way or the other. Just trying to visualize how much stuff we’re talking about.