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You can boost it by hollowing out the middle and filling it with tritium, but plutonium is dense, so 80 tons will probably fit in the firebox just fine.

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zarathustra0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

but plutonium is dense, so 80 tons will probably fit in the firebox

I feel like there’s a thing that will happen when I put that much in such a comparatively small place.

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- AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’ll heat up the firebox, which is exactly what the firebox wants to happen. It’s not like we’re using precisely-timed explosives to briefly make the mass much more than critical and counter its desire to blow itself apart for long enough that it blows other things apart, too.
  
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