[LAU] OT: metal, money, changes, bleg

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 04/04/2011 04:14 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>    
>> So just to make sure I am correct here... All nuclear weapons require an
>> assisted explosion?
>>      
> Yes, you need both high heat and high pressure to force the fissile
> material into the required chain reaction.
>
>    
>> It's categorically impossible for Plutonium-239 to
>> become critical without assistance from an explosion of some other fuel
>> or high energy source?
>>
>> You don't have super heated Pu-239 actively being created in a semi
>> critical chain reaction. If it gets unstable there is not enough neutron
>> flux to make baby go boom.
>>      
> As explained here:
>
>      https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Criticality_accident
>
> there have been a number of criticality accidents, but they always
> create so much heat that the fissile material expands and the conditions
> cease to be critical.
>
>    

What we have at this moment is 870 metric tonnes of super heated fuel 
working it's way to the earths mantle. As you have explained it is 
possible to make Pu-239 go to fissile state with enough pressure and 
speed this is now becoming entirely possible. The fuel is exploding. The 
explosions create the following circumstances

1: Extreme Pressure
2: Extreme Heat

With each explosion it is likely that the perfect conditions could be 
created for a fissile chain reaction. If that doesn't happen at the very 
least we have massive convention explosions in the range of approx 2000 
pounds constantly happening while the fuel burns it way down through the 
crust. Anything that is in it's path will be vapourised or otherwise 
converted to energy. Keep in mind too that the further is descends 
towards the mantle the hotter it gets, the more radioactive it becomes 
and the higher the atmospheric pressure goes too!

You can see from the data maps at the zamg (http://zamg.ac.at) that the 
toxic cloud is just getting worse every day. The situation is dire and 
as many people who can put their minds to the solution as possible need 
to be working on this as their foremost priority.

If you can and you don't then you are not worthy of living on this planet!




-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.