File:Partially-reflected-plutonium-sphere.jpeg
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editDescriptionPartially-reflected-plutonium-sphere.jpeg | 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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Source | 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 | |||
Author | Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||
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current | 23:20, 14 November 2017 | ![]() | 800 × 640 (308 KB) | Hasenläufer (talk | contribs) | Watermark removed |
14:02, 1 October 2016 | ![]() | 800 × 640 (128 KB) | Quibik (talk | contribs) | Higher-res version from https://www.flickr.com/photos/losalamosnatlab/7597464832/ | |
18:11, 31 July 2008 | ![]() | 471 × 363 (56 KB) | Ian Dunster~commonswiki (talk | contribs) | Set levels. Changed to greyscale. Sharpened slightly. | |
10:58, 20 April 2005 | ![]() | 471 × 363 (28 KB) | Aarchiba~commonswiki (talk | contribs) | A sphere of en:plutonium partially surrounded by neutron-reflecting tungsten-carbide blocks. A recreation of a en:criticality accident to measure neutron production. From LANL's report on criticality accidents, 2000, http://www.csirc.net/library |
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Date and time of digitizing | 01:19, 15 November 2017 |
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