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RE: Manhattan Project Legacy



There have been reports that maintenance involved more that just "checking the oil in the engine."

"Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA> wrote:

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?
<SNIP>

.........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



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