Noone is better at self-nuking than Russians.
“ Take care of your loved ones, explain to friends and family that there is no danger. The situation is under control.”
“There is no graphite!”
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putin has problems at home
Doesn’t matter. Russian nuclear bombs are already deployed and likely able to EVADE anything the West has.
Sadly, though (for civilians), the Neocons will have to learn the above the HARD WAY, as they’ve been learning about Western “Wonder Weapons” getting wiped out in Ukraine.
Some people might have breathed it. The stuff would do major damage to the lungs of people who breathed it in.
Why the plant would have 100 people in the vicinity is beyond my knowledge.
Uranium enrichment is a lot of work, but it should be automated as much as practical.
UF6 dissociates into HF in moist air. Very very bad.
U235 is probably the most unique element-Isotope in the entire Periodic Table.
A little known fact is more people have been killed from U235 Prompt Critical events than any other element-isotope.
Just standing near a sub critical mass can cause it to go Prompt.
And yet without, the entire world of nuclear science would vanish.
I still think that Seaborg’s original creation of Pu239 was an attempt to create more U235.
It DOES work but Pu239 -> U235 decay has 1/2 life of 24,000 years
“depleted uranium hexafluoride “ that’s really bad ass stuff. Not the depleted uranium, the hexaflouride acid.
Is this Russia’s only nuclear fuel processing plant? If so their nuclear weapons production, such as it is, is going to have problems. Dmitry Medvedev already suggests that despite official numbers, the US has more nuclear weapons than Russia.
Freakin dumb Roooskies. And they think they are fit to rule Ukraine.