[Uri’el-2012]

It might not been an normal explosion.

It could have been a "critical mass"
from not clearing yesterday's centrifuge.

Years ago there was an incident at Hanford,
Washington involved with a centrifuge.

[TXnMA]

There are all sorts of nasty things that can go wrong when you are shut up in an underground "tomb" with large quantities of HF₆ and enriched uranium.

The problem was reports of an "earth-shaking explosion". A blast of that magnitude would almost certainly have vented. Hence I wasted time on analyzing what was most likely a bogus photo -- because we on FR deserved to know if it was -- or was not -- evidence of a vented explosion.

Oh, well, it was a useful exercise in doing something I hadn't done for a while -- and I polished up several useful analysis techniques using different software -- and we had some nice discussions...