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Not the most economical manufacturing process, it has to be said.
It's a real blast, though. (In all seriousness, I hope we never, ever in this lifetime cause humans to suffer like we did on that day)
Interesting. Bring on the A-bomb foundries! Had this been discovered during the exploration phase of atomic bomb use we probably would have seen A-bomb foundry proposals. There is a hypothesized process in this paper that sounds like a graduate thesis on its own.
What, you mean, like American Machine and Foundry building nuclear reactors? https://www.ans.org/news/article-1858/elk-river-rural-americ...
I am sure that somebody will take up the task of reproducing these alloys using intense heat from a non-atomic source. New alloys can be quite lucrative but developing them requires just as much experimentation as making new drugs. I'd imagine that getting to an alloy of 7 metals through progressive experimentation would take awhile. Now we know it's possible and have a possible production path. That is enough to spur some experiments down that road.
Not the most economical manufacturing process, it has to be said.
The paper explains it more as an experimental process than a manufacturing process. Each granule of hiroshimaite captures a "unique" micro-environment. One could imagine an ethical version of this involving conventional explosives in a controlled environment containing a variety of metallic samples of different compositions.
Interesting. Bring on the A-bomb foundries! Had this been discovered during the exploration phase of atomic bomb use we probably would have seen A-bomb foundry proposals. There is a hypothesized process in this paper that sounds like a graduate thesis on its own.
Not the most economical manufacturing process, it has to be said.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a real blast, though. (In all seriousness, I hope we never, ever in this lifetime cause humans to suffer like we did on that day)
I mean, I'm probably just being contrarian and I too would appreciate it if people stopped suffering, but like, people are suffering worse than that right now as we type this.
70,000 dying in a flash certainly puts an end to their suffering.
Interesting. Bring on the A-bomb foundries! Had this been discovered during the exploration phase of atomic bomb use we probably would have seen A-bomb foundry proposals. There is a hypothesized process in this paper that sounds like a graduate thesis on its own.
I bet a nuclear foundry can be bundled with atomic mining ala Project Plowshare. Guess we are lucky we didn't get the future the atomic age promised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...