Second try, hopefully it works this time
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Yes, that would work. You would fire the prettiest blue "lazer" in all directions, then everyone in the area would die a couple of weeks later.
Actually, in both cases of the demon core going supercritical the shell was immediately removed and only the closest person died of acute radiation poisoning. Even in the second event a man was within a meter of the core and only recieved 166 rad and lived 19 years compared to the man closest to it who received 1000 rad and lived 9 days.
So someone using it as a weapon is going to open the shell immediately?
Probably not, as they are probably already terminal. Maybe if only to stop the radiation burns they're suffering from while it's still closed. The person firing this weapon is the one who takes the most damage.
If you don't reopen the shell immediately, things get a lot worse. In both demon core incidents the radiation release was mitigated by swift action to stop the criticality.
If you don't open it back up the heat starts to build up and the device will melt down. While releasing a lot more radiation.
Yes. That is how fusion works.