Originally posted by: Indybusters
Sorry about the blank post.
You do know you can edit your posts, right?
I'm real serious, and I do know what I'm talking about.
You rambling posting method doesn't do much to support that claim. Nor does your lack of supporting links.
1. The difference between a Uranium deposit, and the Fermi Pile, is that the pile is "moderated", whilst the native element doesn't get its neutrons slowed down.
The native element rarely achieves high enough refinement to achieve fission, much less criticality. They become moderated by
the presence of other elements in the surrounding soil.
We knew graphite would moderate, but the Nazi's were hooked on heavy water D2 O, for their moderater.
And what does this have to do with your claims above?
We did finally blow a moderated reactor up, in Nevada, about 1970. It got the standard B.S. press release of 20 Kilotons. I remember seeing a bright flash and mushroom cloud on the news at the time. No more reactor containment building.
Do you have a copy of that press release? AFAIK no reactor could blow up with a measured blast of
any Kilotonnage; even
if it was pushed to critical overload. An atomic explosion IIRC, does not occur from reaching critical mass, but by forcing the
core materials to reach supercriticality under pressure by the use of a triggering detonation compressing the fissionable materials
far beyond the critical threshold. Otherwise, the only explosive effects possible would be caused by a rupture in the containment
vessel caused by expanding gases venting from the heat of the nuclear core.
According to
this site, there were no above ground nuclear tests
conducted in Nevada past 1958.
This table shows the last atmospheric tests conducted by the US took place in 1963. If it was an underground bomb test you are referring to, then there would not likely have
been a flash or mushrooom cloud visible at the time.
2. The Cape May event is the first actual weapon, regardless of the Gov'ts silence.
So you claim, but you don't provide any information on what this Cape May event was supposed to be. Link?
They must have gone nuts over the coverup, as only a precious few scientists knew of the Manhattan project.
Except for all the scientists actually on the project?
This discounts a Captain who obliterated himself at hanford with slugs of uranium dropping past other slugs from a steel tower to test for critical mass.
Link?
The Gov't covered this one up for many years, after all, it wasn't really a bomb, unless it was issued as a bomb. If the Nazi's and the present terrorists stick to moderated supercriticalities, instead of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki unmoderated, but supercritical bombs, then the difference will be in miliseconds for the people around ground zero.
You are using present tense for Nazi research on atomic bombs?
G.E. calculated, in a reactor, the time for a cosmic ray to take a supercritical mass to detonation is three millionths of a second.
G.E? (oh, and Link?)
That Hanford Captain kept dropping larger and larger slugs, until an unlucky transient cosmic ray lit him up real good.
What happened to his support team?
The Gov't figured that stray "rays" weren't good enough, so they included a Polonium isotope right in the middle of the two Bombs dropped on Japan, and called this improvement , the "Initiator".
Little Boy
Fat Man
If these guys are wrong in their specs, you might want to send them an email about it.
3. I don't expect any of you to be up on old Nosty, but I'm giving him proper credit on naming and locating three atomic bombs used in action, in WWII, by the U.S..
But if what you claim is true, that proves old Nosty wrong. Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki count as three, but Cape May and
Hanford would bring the number up to five.
