Susan L Gawarecki wrote:
What kind of nuclear weapons "maintenance" can an airbase do, aside from
wiping off the dust and cleaning/greasing the moving parts?
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.........and how do you get radioactive contamination from wiping off the dust and cleaning/greasing, when the bomb pits are nickel-plated ?? ...is it contamination left on the outside of the nickel-plating during the manufacturing process, or just diffusion of radioactive material through the plating (perhaps Po-210 from early-type bomb triggers ?).
Mysterious.
Jaro