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tyingq
on Jan 25, 2021
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Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on Nor...
Makes me curious if the radioactive material eventually gets exposed by corrosion or erosion.
laumars
on Jan 25, 2021
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I couldn’t explode. You’d need the detonator to do that. However the radioactive content could still pollute if the shielding were to corrode away.
Aerroon
on Jan 26, 2021
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The main ways it would be harmful is if you touched it or ate fish that touched it. The corrosion would probably just spread it out in the ocean and it'll soon become unnoticeable. After all, the radioactive materials mostly exist in nature anyway.
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