Comment on Physics

Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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  • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Idk how you can include all this but not the Kyle Hill documentary

    youtu.be/aFlromB6SnU?si=ApqgHynC0WopCQG1

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    • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Good point, thanks for pointing to it.

      (Also, pro tip: take off that ?si=… stuff from your link, that’s tracking tags)

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• Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  A fun little experiment you can do at home!

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• JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Demon Core

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• nodoze313@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

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