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To: Carry_Okie
Assume some lithium titride was obtained via the black market and transported to the US. How big would be the minimum necessary bomb arming and maintenance facility?

A clean room environment big enough to: allow two or three people to work immediately next to the bomb without hitting each other; ensure that the bomb is not exposed to anything but extremely dehumidified air (lithium hydride/deuteride/tritide is amazingly hygroscopic); ensure that all workers are on supplied air (no exhaled moisture hitting the lithium tritide); and ensure that the facility is shielded well enough so that there are no detectable gamma and neutron emissions (gamma shielding is a fairish amount of lead; neutron shielding is LOTS of polystyrene foam) to alert NEST. You'd need to make very noticeable modifications to a largish residential home at a minimum.

86 posted on 11/14/2002 10:06:55 AM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
So would a 10,000 sf industrial space be about right?
89 posted on 11/14/2002 10:13:16 AM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: Poohbah
Sounds like a 7-11 would work.

(Woo d'joo lykas lurp peewee dat?)
90 posted on 11/14/2002 10:14:12 AM PST by Hanging Chad
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