Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.

On 16/05/2025 1:22 am, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2025 19:38:09 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
 

On 2025-05-14 17:37, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:10:06 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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On 2025-05-14 19:19, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2025 22:28:23 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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On 2025-05-13 18:14, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 13/05/2025 11:48 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2025 12:57:47 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

I'd be tempted to put hot waste in very heavy steel casks and drop
them into the Mariana Trench:
 .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench>
 It's 11 Km deep, and is where the Pacific Plate is subducting under
the Mariana plate, so those caskets are in for the long term.  Nor is
retrieval all that easy, or a nuclear weapon of much consequence.  If
it even works under such pressure.

Implosion style plutonium bombs take advantage the fact that the critical mass of plutonium is reduced if it compressed - a symmetrical shell of explosive material detonates the bomb by compressing a near critical mass of plutonium until it is dense enough to become a critical mass.
If you sunk such a bomb in the Mariana Trench, it might go off without any help from the layer of explosive. You might not see any mushroom cloud, but you'd notice the shock wave when it hit the ocean surface.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney