This Beach Volleyball Court Is Surrounded by 2,000 Pounds of Plutonium

This Beach Volleyball Court Is Surrounded by 2,000 Pounds of Plutonium

The chances of you ever visiting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are already pretty low. But the likelihood you’d manage to find your way into its specially designed, ultra-safe, and hyper-secure nuclear research facility are slim to none. Which is too bad—because it’s the only chance you’d ever have of knowing the joys of playing beach volleyball surrounded by enriched uranium and high-pressure plutonium’s warm, metaphorical glow.

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