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Demon Core (dt. „ Dämonen kern“) ist der Spitzname einer 89 mm großen, 6,2 kg schweren Plutonium -Kugel, die bei zwei Unfällen im Los Alamos National Laboratory einen überkritischen Zustand erreichte. Bei beiden Unfällen starben die auslösenden Wissenschaftler an den Folgen.
The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. It was manufactured by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. nuclear weapon development effort during World War II.
10. Juli 2010 · 23K. 2.2M views 13 years ago. The Demon Core was the nickname given to a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium that accidentally went critical on two separate instances at the Los...
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19. Okt. 2023 · The Demon core is a 6.2 kg Plutonium-Gallium sphere with a diameter of 8.9 cm (smaller than a basketball). The Plutonium-239 isotope used in the core is a manmade element produced in nuclear reactors. It is highly unstable, radioactive, and decays by emitting alpha particles, which is damaging to our tissues.
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3. Apr. 2021 · The Chilling Story of The 'Demon Core' And The Scientists Who Became Its Victims : ScienceAlert. Humans 03 April 2021. By Peter Dockrill. (Los Alamos National Laboratory) It was August 13, 1945, and the 'demon core' was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen.
21. Mai 2016 · The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin. By Alex Wellerstein. May 21, 2016. A re-creation of the plutonium core that briefly went critical on May 21, 1946, resulting in the death...
3. Apr. 2024 · The demon core was a plutonium core, originally intended to be the heart of the third atomic bomb developed by the United States during World War II. As the war neared its climax, the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan — one on Hiroshima and another on Nagasaki — in a bid to bring about a swift end to the conflict.
