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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists

The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...
Nuclear Engineering International

Oklo runs plutonium reactor tests

Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...
Digital Journal

U.S. physicists pose with plutonium core of Nagasaki bomb

Despite the cheerful smiles on their faces, history records that the little box killed an estimated 80,000 civilians after it was detonated on August 9, 1945 over Nagasaki. Fat Man was detonated over ...
Post and Courier

Savannah River site in South Carolina will produce plutonium cores for nuclear weapons

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile recommended Thursday that the production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads be split ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

LANL's prototype plutonium bomb core passes key tests

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Los Alamos National Laboratory reached what federal officials say is a key milestone in developing its first ...