Louis Slotin Biography | Pantheon
Louis Slotin Biography | Pantheon
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On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin was performing a high stakes experiment known as “tickling the dragons tail” at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Slotin was using a 6.2 kilogram plutonium core, later known as the Demon Core, to establish the exact point of criticality. He was manually lowering a beryllium tamper over the core using only the blade of a flathead screwdriver to maintain a tiny gap that allowed neutrons to escape. The horror began when the screwdriver slipped
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Louis Slotin was a brilliant physicist at Los Alamos, but he was a cowboy. He performed a dangerous experiment called "Tickling the Dragon's Tail," where he used a simple flathead screwdriver to keep two halves of a beryllium sphere apart. Inside was a plutonium core. If the halves touched, the core would go critical. On May 21, 1946, in front of seven other scientists, his screwdriver slipped. The shells snapped shut. Instantly, a flash of blue light filled the room. Slotin jerked his hand back
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