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Teflon and re entry
In article , Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
In message , "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" writes "Paul F. Dietz" wrote in message ... OM wrote: ...Teflon was important because it lined the insides of the bomb casing. That way, if the bomb was a dud and the uranium core was simply splattered inside the casing, it wouldn't stick to the inside and could simply be wiped into a container by an expendable maid and a damp washcloth. Someone fed you a line on that one, OM. The conventional explosives in an implosion bomb are more than enough to fragment the entire thing, and a fizzle yield in any nuclear bomb would be more than enough to vaporize it. Umm, Paul, I think you bit this one hook, line and sinker. But seriously, what happened to the big steel container that was supposedly built for the first atom bomb tests, so if it didn't work they wouldn't lose all that U235? IIRC, they fabricated a large concrete/steel storage facility for the uranium, way way out in the desert at the test sire; this was only to hold the fissile material before the test explosion, though, so as to ensure that a) it was kept securely and b) any unintended criticality would be, at least, mitigated. The bunker, later, survived the Trinity explosion being set off next door... -- -Andrew Gray |
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"Herb Schaltegger" wrote:
I think you missed OM's invisible [/sarcasm] [/end sarcasm] tags. According to the W3C code validator OM still has an unclosed [sarcasm] tag from sometime in the late 80s. |
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Teflon and re entry
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:11:51 -0500, "Christopher M. Jones"
wrote: "Herb Schaltegger" wrote: I think you missed OM's invisible [/sarcasm] [/end sarcasm] tags. According to the W3C code validator OM still has an unclosed [sarcasm] tag from sometime in the late 80s. ....Actually, it's a holdover from prototype markup language tests for a FORTRAN graphical display program on a Tektronics terminal I did back in late '79. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Teflon and re entry
OM wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:36:38 +1000, Julian Bordas wrote: Hmmm Not sure about that OM. How you say in America Go tell it to the naval infantry? ...Guys, having all the Maxson trash around here has killed your sense of humor. I mean, seriously. The clue that I was being humorous should have been obvious when I mentioned that the mess could be cleaned up with a damp washcloth. After all, Army maids *are* expendable... OM Go tell it to the marines then. |
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