3 comments

  • tastyfreeze 56 minutes ago
    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.

  • HPsquared 1 hour ago
    Not the most economical manufacturing process, it has to be said.
    • boothby 26 minutes ago
      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.
    • indrora 13 minutes ago
      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)

      • wredcoll 7 minutes ago
        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.
    • sawjet 16 minutes ago
      There were some nuclear fracking experiments where the nukes cost in the range of a few hundred thousand dollars. It's probably cheaper than you think.
    • tuetuopay 34 minutes ago
      You can probably skip the town in the ingredient list.
  • metalman 32 minutes ago
    Hey! ,this is great! next we can have moskitonium, londinium(heh), and washingtondcinite, rare valuable collectables for some far future alien travellers