and hop on a plane to the united states, officials had to extract the uranium racks from this ionized pools they were stored in. they then transferred them into specially-designed casks lined with steal. 60 tons of metal were used to secure just 40 pounds of uranium. package and handle this stuff the wrong way and you can set off a spontaneous nuclear chain reaction. time reports it was 12 hours after the team got the uranium into those casks and surrounded it with 1500-pound protective impact limiters, just 12 hours after that the giant 8.8 impact, aka earthquake, hit. well packed for shipping, the uranium was safe in the quake. if there had been a spontaneous nuclear reaction, you probably would have heard about it by now. but the earthquake did render totally unusable, the port that
stored at two facilities. 40 pounds of the stuff is considered to be enough to destroy part of a major city if it were detonated, which would not be the hardest thing in the world to do. so you obviously can t pick this stuff up, throw it in a suitcase and hop on a plane to the united states, u.s. and chilean officials had to extract the uranium racks from this ionized pools they were stored in. they then transferred them into specially designed casks lined with steel. 60 tons of metal were used to secure just 40 pounds of uranium. package and handle this stuff the wrong way and you can set off a spontaneous nuclear chain reaction. time reports it was 12 hours after the team got the uranium into those casks and surrounded it with 1500-pound protective impact limiters, just 12 hours after that the giant 8.8 impact, aka earthquake, hit. well packed for shipping, the uranium was safe in the quake. if there had been a spontaneous