What if the Demon Core Was Worse?

From Kyle Hill.

In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains the counterfactual physics of history’s most infamous criticality accidents.

SOURCES:
The Criticality Accident in Sarov, IAEA (PDF): https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub1106_scr.pdf
A Review of Criticality Accidents, Los Alamos National Lab (PDF): https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003731912.pdf

00:00 Intro
01:20 Prompt Critical
05:27 Sarov
09:16 Catch22

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