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Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump

Urchin writes "Researchers have just identified the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made. The batch was produced as part of the Manhattan Project, but predates Trinity — the first nuclear weapon test — by seven months. It was unearthed in a waste pit at Hanford, Washington, inside a beaten up old safe."

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  1. Re:Mystery Pits by Bozzio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, it's only a matter of time before a crew of teenage crime-fighters mutates into existence. Hanford will then be the safest place in the world!

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  2. Researchers by planckscale · · Score: 4, Funny

    By "Researchers" they mean "Homeland Security officers" who were contacted by "Police" who were contacted by "Hospital Staff" who had become sickened by "vagrants" admitted to emergency rooms with strange "green glowing skin" who had admitted to trying to sell a "Safe" they found in the "dump".

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  3. Re:Mystery Pits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    At the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian Japanese lives.

    That's what happens when your Emperor and your military piss off America.

  4. I guess that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Richard Feynman mustn't have had access to this particular safe.

  5. Re:Worth a read - interesting article by shadwstalkr · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real shame is that Doc Brown never had to get involved with terrorists after all.

  6. Re:Mystery Pits by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Worst case scenario, you give a half-dozen people lung cancer. Not exactly an effective weapon.

    Just make sure you don't detonate it in the smoking area, or you'll never even know if it was effective....

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