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Behind Closed Doors
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- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
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I didn't see the program, but based on comments posted here from those who
did, I'd like to pose a couple of questions:
1) Did DOE really allow a reporter to handle a "ten pound sphere of plutonium"?
Even when I worked at a Pu processing site and had a DOE Q clearance, I
couldn't get near the SNM because I didn't have the need, and those who did
handle the material did so in gloveboxes.
2) Isn't a "ten pound sphere of plutonium" pretty much a critical mass in a
critical geometry? (or am I just being unnecessarily critical?)
Bruce Pickett
The Boeing Company
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