• mememuseum@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Also, the fissile material has been radioactively decaying for decades and should no longer be refined enough to go critical.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not sure about that, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24k years and uranium-235’s is far longer.