Jezebel — Los Alamos unshielded nuclear assembly, 17 kg bare sphere of plutonium. A bomb in very, very slow motion.pic.twitter.com/g77imFLe6C
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@funranium Was that the kind of thing that killed Slotin?@xek@wellerstein
@rrmutt @funranium @xek i.e. remote operated, not "guy holding it apart with a screwdriver."
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@wellerstein@rrmutt@funranium It still made me shiver. What's the horizontal bar for? Does that little hole actually dampen the reaction? -
@xek@rrmutt@funranium The horizontal bars is a control rod, the hole (I shit you not) is officially known as the "glory hole."
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