(02-01-2023, 02:37 PM)BIAD Wrote: Dem' bombs, they can be tetchy !!
Quote:The Second Incident.
'On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin and seven other personnel were in a Los Alamos laboratory
conducting another experiment to verify the closeness of the core to criticality by the positioning of
neutron reflectors.
Slotin, who was leaving Los Alamos, was showing the technique to Alvin C. Graves, who would use
it in a final test before the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests scheduled a month later at Bikini Atoll.
It required the operator to place two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around the core to
be tested and manually lower the top reflector over the core using a thumb hole on the top.
Them screw drivers can be lethal! When I read such stories I wonder how in the hell are we all still here!
I clicked on this name from your link:
Quote:Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II. He accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945, during a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico and died 25 days later from the resultant radiation poisoning.
Horrible way to go at 24 yrs old.
Spooky 'demon core' Trinity go kaboom - portal to hell has been opened.
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