Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Demon Core and Other Criticality Accidents
36 min•12 oktober 2020
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The Demon Core was a sphere of plutonium-gallium alloy that the U.S. made for use in an atomic bomb during World War II. After the war, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory had two separate, fatal criticality accidents while working with it.
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