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A sphere of plutonium surrounded by neutron-reflecting blocks of tungsten carbide. A re-creation of the August 21, 1945 criticality accident at Los Alamos to measure the radiation produced when an extra block was added, making the mass supercritical. |
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2 October 1945 |
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From LANL's report on criticality accidents, 2000, http://www.csirc.net/docs/reports/la-13638.pdf PDF at http://www.csirc.net/library/la_13638.shtml |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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