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Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What’s the middle bottom one?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 months ago
What’s the middle bottom one?
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That orb in the middle of the apparatus is The Demon Core, a piece of plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project, for a third nuke which was never needed. So it was used for criticality experiments, which is where those hemispheres come in.
Anyway, in those experiments it was key in a few accidents, which caused the deaths by radiation of several researchers. After the later bout of experiments, the core was scrapped.
A little more reading in case you’re interested
Patches@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Idk how you can include all this but not the Kyle Hill documentary
youtu.be/aFlromB6SnU?si=ApqgHynC0WopCQG1
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Good point, thanks for pointing to it.
(Also, pro tip: take off that ?si=… stuff from your link, that’s tracking tags)