From:	Leszek Karlik aka Mike <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject:	Re: Nuclear Bullets (Was Re: Narcoject)
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:18:46 +0000

On 22 Sep 98, Christopher King disseminated foul capitalist
propaganda by writing:

<snip collapsing californium rounds>

> Now that my evilGM mode has been engaged I have to wonder about the
> properties of said bullets... you'd have to put them into sniper
> rounds (the reasoning here is left as an exercise for the player)
> which have a volume of 75 cm^3 (swag). The density of Californium
> (presently unmeasured) has to be pretty significant in order to get
> the requisite slow neutron mean path within the shell. So we're
> talking about bullets weighing in at multiple kilograms (assuming
> something 1.5 times as dense as uranium).

Nope, not really. As I've said, they're collapsing rounds - a solid
californium round would, well, go BOOM. So those are empty inside,
and they crumple when they hit a target, beginning the reaction.

> Now comes the kicker... what kind of yield would we get from a
> couple of kilos of Cf and with bullets weighing that much unless we
> use something really novel to propel the bullets what are the
> chances of the sniper surviving?

Well, I'd say we use californium to make collapsing rounds for Steyr
AMR, they should fly pretty far. ;>>

Leslie

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