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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days agoThat’s not at all what happened with the Demon Core. On its own, you could not do anything to it that would make it reach supercriticality. The experiments that were conducted on it involved neutron reflective materials. With the addition of neutrons back into the core, that pushed it closer and closer to criticality. Both incidents occurred when too much reflective material was added around the core and it reached supercriticality, a sustained chain reaction.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Yeah, for being brilliant physicists, they weren’t particularly smart. From the second incident:
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sciencealert.com/the-chilling-story-of-the-demon-…
General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is why WIS and INT are different stats.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
If I remember right the people conducting the experiments using the screwdriver were told that this method was stupid and dangerous.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Enrico Fermi told him he’d be dead withing a year if he carried on using this dangerous method.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8FnsnWz48&t=415s