Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

tastyfreeze•about 1 hour ago

Interesting. Bring on the A-bomb foundries! Had this been discovered during the exploration phase of atomic bomb use we probably would have seen A-bomb foundry proposals.

There is a hypothesized process in this paper that sounds like a graduate thesis on its own.

GolfPopper•27 minutes ago

What, you mean, like American Machine and Foundry building nuclear reactors?

https://www.ans.org/news/article-1858/elk-river-rural-americ...

tokai•17 minutes ago

I bet a nuclear foundry can be bundled with atomic mining ala Project Plowshare. Guess we are lucky we didn't get the future the atomic age promised.

HPsquared•about 1 hour ago

Not the most economical manufacturing process, it has to be said.

boothby•24 minutes ago

The paper explains it more as an experimental process than a manufacturing process. Each granule of hiroshimaite captures a "unique" micro-environment. One could imagine an ethical version of this involving conventional explosives in a controlled environment containing a variety of metallic samples of different compositions.

indrora•10 minutes ago

It's a real blast, though.

(In all seriousness, I hope we never, ever in this lifetime cause humans to suffer like we did on that day)

wredcoll•4 minutes ago

I mean, I'm probably just being contrarian and I too would appreciate it if people stopped suffering, but like, people are suffering worse than that right now as we type this.

sawjet•13 minutes ago

There were some nuclear fracking experiments where the nukes cost in the range of a few hundred thousand dollars. It's probably cheaper than you think.

tuetuopay•31 minutes ago

You can probably skip the town in the ingredient list.

metalman•29 minutes ago

Hey! ,this is great! next we can have moskitonium, londinium(heh), and washingtondcinite, rare valuable collectables for some far future alien travellers

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

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