How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Uranium Safe

Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by cm2187 on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:29AM (#30904426)

Amusing related fact of the day, I heard the french nuclear authority transports some of the radioactive uranium in retail pressure cookers. Apparently it's good enough the stop those radiations, they need the pressure release valve, and is much cheaper than to build something custom with very little benefits.

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by adrianN on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:08AM (#30904918)

Which brand of pressure cooker though? I'm in the market for a new one. If it's good enough for uranium it's probably good enough for my beans.

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by GekkePrutser on Monday April 04, 2022 @07:36AM (#30905441)

I definitely won't buy a used one after reading this :')

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by nbernard on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:44AM (#30906553)

IIRC, Seb: https://www.seb.fr/

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by blurrypepe on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:54AM (#30904550)

Wow that's interesting! Do you happen to have a source for that? I'd like to read more about this...

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by cm2187 on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:56AM (#30904560)

No, something someone working there told me

[edit] actually https://www.rt.com/news/pressure-cooker-plutonium-france-628...

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Re:How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Urani... by karambahh on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:38AM (#30905046)

A more reputable source in french: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/cherche-cocottes-minute-p...

A witness in this article adds that "every nuclear facility in the world use them"

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