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For a reactor with an output of 1000 megawatts (MWe), the core would contain about 75 tonnes of low-enriched uranium.
en.m.wikipedia.org...
All four variants share the same basic core: a nuclear system which is 10.75 inches (273 mm) diameter, about 15.7 inches (400 mm) long, and weighs around or slightly over 50 pounds (23 kg).[2]
The W54 core, based on the available Training Manual illustrations (particularly of the Davy Crockett) was a spherical device 10.75" in diameter plus the Safe-Arm and Electronics module in the tail cone with time fuse and a Contact fuse in the nose. The best photographic interpolation match to its external dimensions is a center cylindrical section 11 inches in diameter and 5 inches long, with roughly 5.5 inch radius hemispherical nose and conic tail cone. Other pictures show a smoothly contoured 5" minor by 5.5" major axis elliptical nose with a 5" minor by 21.5" truncated elliptical tail. Four fins extend the over all length to 31", with a central hemi-spherical to cylindrical projection that serves to join the bomb to the spigot-piston that is muzzle loaded into the launcher.[citation needed]
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
No friend, the radiation was not keeping it molten, some source of heat was keeping it molten, as in Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
originally posted by: MrBig2430
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
No friend, the radiation was not keeping it molten, some source of heat was keeping it molten, as in Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
You have no idea how heat is generated do you? There are 3 ways:
1- kinetic energy of fission byproducts heats stuff it collides with
2- absorption of gamma rays
No, that's not news to me, and neither is it news to me that the government is well known for its lies and deception, and its ability to cover-up facts and truth.
Remember how Kean & Hamilton both reported that the Commission was set up to fail? Have you given any thought as to what that means, or would you rather not?
3- radioactive decay
All 3 release radiation.
I'm betting this is news to you.
3-
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
Which government branch was out there testing for radiation? Apparently none, for there has been no government record of radiation detected being zero, just as there was no government record of the air being tested, even as the EPA head pronounced the air just fine to breathe.
There were ample signs of radiation present though, as those who worked at GZ were taken sick with radiation poisoning.
originally posted by: [post=22591332]Salander
No, that's not news to me,
So why were there no radiation detected at the WTC site ........
Tests for a ‘dirty bomb’
A major concern was that terrorists could have unleashed a so-called “dirty bomb,” an explosive device containing radioactive compounds like cesium.
Within minutes of the crash, McKinney sent a radiological health inspector to check the site for any radiation sources. He reached Richard Borri, a senior scientist in the department’s office of Radiological Health, who like most people from DOH, was on his way to work when the first tower was hit.
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“While I was walking down Church Street, with all my instruments, I came within 1000 feet of the South Tower, and unfortunately the building came down,” says Borri, sounding every bit the unruffled scientist. “It’s a good thing I walked slowly.”
How does one continue on one’s mission without getting distracted by such details as a 110-story building comes down in front of you? “You concentrate on what you need to do,” says Borri, who simply walked amid the vehicles and victims covered with layers and layers of soot, “taking samples off the people coming out of the building.”
The high-tech gadget he carried, one of the few available in the United States, is far more precise than its century-old cousin, the Geiger Counter.
Borri checked the World Trade Center site for signs of radiation before and after the collapse of the buildings. Radiation could have originated in industrial radiology sources, such as the installing beams of the huge office buildings, which may have contained some radioactive elements from x-rays taken, and from depleted uranium used in ballasts in aircraft wing tips (such counterweights in airplane wing tips give the most weight for least volume, says Borri). It might also be left from any medical or dental offices.
www.neha.org...
Why were there no radiation casualties......?
originally posted by: StonedPidgeon
They carefully used overlay images on live feeds (though not carefully enough, thank you September Clues ((youtube))), to simulate airplanes crashing into the building, though they did not bother with the Pentagon. (Most likey missiles, as eye and ear witnesses attest that day).
www.scientistsfor911truth.org...
As defined in this paper, eyewitness testimony at the Pentagon on 9/11 and shortly afterwards includes the following categories of witnesses, presented according to the theory their testimony supports:
1. Witnesses who saw the approach and/or impact of a large plane (measured in scores, 31 to 89 - 100)
2. Witnesses who saw the approach and/or impact of a small plane (about 4)
3. Witnesses who claimed to have seen a north-of CITGO path (about 12, many of whom also claim that
plane impact with the Pentagon did occur)
4. Witnesses who claim to have seen a plane fly low over, or away from, the Pentagon (CIT cites 1
questionable18 witness)
5. Witnesses who inferred bombs or explosives from the sound and/or odor (about 12), and far less if the
more reliable tests of odor and observed casualties are applied. See Appendix B.
6. Witnesses who inferred a missile from the sound or otherwise (about 6).
Within minutes of the crash, McKinney sent a radiological health inspector to check the site for any radiation sources. He reached Richard Borri, a senior scientist in the department’s office of Radiological Health, who like most people from DOH, was on his way to work when the first tower was hit.
“While I was walking down Church Street, with all my instruments, I came within 1000 feet of the South Tower, and unfortunately the building came down,” says Borri, sounding every bit the unruffled scientist. “It’s a good thing I walked slowly.”
That was fortunately not the case, Borri found, using a portable liquid scintillation counter, which measures radioactivity like a Geiger counter. The high-tech portable gadget he carried, one of the few available in the United States, is far more precise than its century-old cousin, the Geiger, counter with a much more refined ability to detect any kind of radioactivity.
Although Borri didn’t turn up any problematic radioactive readings by the end of the day, his work would be supplemented by the federal Department of Energy, whose technicians remained on site and continued to sample. [Only during the last days of the Ground Zero cleanup would radioactive testers find any evidence of radioactive emissions, from a pharmacy laboratory located within one of the buildings.]
At this point it was utter chaos trying to find people and get organized. It took a while to re-organize and find some people and get working on the rubble to look for survivors. A total recall was ordered and upon the arrival of a few more Haz-Mat guys we performed quick surveys of the perimeter in two teams of four checking for radiation, nerve and blister agent, all results were negative. We then began digging for survivors.
originally posted by: neutronflux
Thanks for pushing false narratives that are roadblocks to the truth you claim you are searching for. How ironic.
Lest start with the pentagon.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: StonedPidgeon
You first. Can you answer the contradictions of the truth movement.
The fist being the claims of the truth movement in that flight 77 left no marks on the concrete floors? (Funny that most building have some sort of covering of the concrete) but an exploding missile caused no pitting or cratering in the concrete.
If the missile was just used as a kinetic, most conspiracist back the stolen sunken Russian missile. A missile under four feet in diameter. How did the missile create a 90 foot wide and 26 tall entrance hole in the shape of an upside down T.
The scores of eyewitnesses that attest to seeing a large commercial jet hit the pentagon. Vs under 15 people smelling cordite. (Which has petroleum products in it. Surely has nothing todo with burning materials and jet fuel.) bs six people that heard a missile?