I mean to compare it to another risky activity performing the supercriticality experiment with a screwdriver is probably like a slightly less dangerous game of Russian roulette
I think it would be pretty difficult to quantitatively compare the two, but of course a person dying in combat might consider it an honorable sacrifice while Slotin died thinking "I am fucking stupid".
I mean to compare it to another risky activity performing the supercriticality experiment with a screwdriver is probably like a slightly less dangerous game of Russian roulette
It's less dangerous than literally charging into machine gun fire. Which millions of men (and they were all men) were convinced to do.
Playing with a radioactive coconut is child's play next to that.
I think it would be pretty difficult to quantitatively compare the two, but of course a person dying in combat might consider it an honorable sacrifice while Slotin died thinking "I am fucking stupid".