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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 de jul. de 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...
19 de oct. de 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.
27 de nov. de 2020 · 2.2M subscribers. Subscribed. 400K. 14M views 3 years ago. In 1946, a P-239 plutonium core scheduled for detonation-by-nuclear-bomb was harmlessly melted down and reintegrated into the United...
27 de sept. de 2015 · 148 subscribers. Subscribed. 193. 10K views 8 years ago. The Philly vocal quartet No Question features Damon Core, Dante Massey, Tommy Blackwell, and Nicholas Johnson performing a spread of...
3 de abr. de 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.
3 de abr. de 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.
