Agnieszka R. TurczyńskaCERN has announced they had successfully transported antimatter by using the truck.
The question is: what ADR category antimatter falls under?
d@nny disc@ mc²@agturcz antimatter truck driver who always gets enough sleep
Brie Mmm@agturcz I'd put it in 1 or 7 (not directly, but if uncontained…). And there's always 9.
@brie I would exclude 7. It is not radioactive by itself. So it's either 1 or 9.
@agturcz 7 is a tricky one. Non-containment will result in radiation blast and subsequent radioactive pollution, so I'd insist on treating the load as class 7, if only to prepare potential responders for hazards on site; and if contained properly, well, then the classification is pure thought exercise.
@brie BTW, considering the amount of the antimatter (92 antiprotons, they said) this discussion is purely theoretical. As a fellow physicist (who, accidentally, has been working in CERN in the past) said: "the oomph of the release of the pneumatic brakes carries more energy, than annihilation of 92 antiprotons with 92 protons". We are talking about the magnitude of 10nJ.
Martin's Pipe Dreams@agturcz Seems not so different from ppl transporting nitroglycerine back in the day. Just more high tech. The first had the better pictures tho.
frank87@pipe_dreams @agturcz Probably, the average bottle nitroglycerine you find in the farmacie contains a lot more explosives than the total worldwide anti-matter production.
Bruchpilot@agturcz
Hmm, might be limited or excepted quantity?
If not, I wonder what the factor regarding the 1000 point rule is...
Hmm, might be limited or excepted quantity?
If not, I wonder what the factor regarding the 1000 point rule is...
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