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 Was it weapons grade uranium? 
 Pretty tame, 1-5% pure 
 By mass I’m guessing? How much was the total mass? 
 5-10 lbs maybe? 
 Even pure uranium is tame. Nucleae fission needs some degree of enrichment. 
 Wow. Yeah hard to know what exactly it is, but even pure yellowcake has “very low radioactivity” though it is dangerous if inhaled. Very cool. 
 Pffft!

Can’t even heat a can of soup with that.