To: madg
Explosion on takeoff would amount to a "dirty bomb."...
Only if you breached the protective casings. I don't think that's ever happened. They fire the things through solid cinderblock walls to test them - they are tough little hombres. Rockets have exploded underneath them, and they've been cleaned up and inserted into new spacecraft for use.
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