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“Radiation-emitting” would be correct in this case. As it reads now, the ball is made of radiation and is itself emitting plutonium.

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Gotta love the lack of a hyphen!

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Gotta love radiation that emits plutonium

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Sounds pretty magical to me.

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8 points

So, it’s a sphere of radiant damage?

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3 points

Wizards love AOE damage

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7 points

Ponder the orb

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Nononono whyyyy is it emitting plutonium, the plutonium would be emitting radioactive particles D:

Also, it likely wouldn’t glow blue since there are no reflectors, so it wouldn’t reach criticality.

I love this one regardless :)

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Weapons grade spheres of plutonium need reflectors because they are just below critical mass, and the reflector pushes it slightly into criticality. There’s nothing stopping you from making it a critical mass in the first place. Accidents have occurred with liquids at power plants where enough of it was pooled together to achieve criticality without a neutron reflector.

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Reminds me of the Lia radiological accident. Maybe they too were wizards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident

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