Fictionalized Criticality Accident

This is the sequence of the nuclear criticality accident from "Fat Man and Little Boy" with John Cusack. This storyline was based on two real accidents that occurred early in the US's nuclear weapons program that killed two brilliant scientists.

What happened was that he was checking the neutron flux, keeping the two halves of the plutonium core seperated with a screwdriver. The blocks around the sphere are tungsten carbide, a neutron reflector, and not lead. When the two halves went together, it achieved critical mass and emitted a huge surge of neutron radiation. The blue glow was caused by the air itself becoming florescent, like in a neon bulb. The doctor comments that he got over a thousand rads, and 600 is enough to kill. As brutal and horrifying it is, this is how one would die if they recieved that much radiation. One of the two scientists this was based on lingered for 26 days before dying, his skin peeling off dead and his internal organs shutting down.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nuclear
• critical
• criticality
• accident
• project

[kruczkin]

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[Tweekerhead]

@ironhorzmn Yup..Your correct, my Dad was over there, probably like your Father. Every island was isolated.

When I brought up the humanity of the A-Bomb to my Ol'Man, he said "Son...It saved my life, and you wouldn't be born if I had died". He was an occupation troop in Nagasaki about a week after they dropped the bomb.

Whata' can ya' do?

Thanks A-Bomb, I'm glad I was able to come outta' my Dad's penis.

[blobliblo35]

@871yt what the fuck dude...

[871yt]

@madamerotten Another sure sign of a dyke. A woman who cant have a normal relationship with men..or anyone for that matter. Just a pathological need to inflict their

own nothingness on the straight world

[871yt]

@madamerotten Again..why would anyone bother? Why do you need to desperately come up with the names of these nobodies?

[madamerotten]

@871yt Some of them can whip your ass, though.

[madamerotten]

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[871yt]

@madamerotten Lesbians...they dont have the feminity or courage to be women

so they decide to be 12 year old boys

[871yt]

@madamerotten yawn

[871yt]

@madamerotten More delusion. No one would even think of doing such a thing.

You had to have some connection with Hollywood to even find these utter

nobodies interesting.

[madamerotten]

@871yt It seems that any idiot could easily look up the resumes of these three people. Maybe you should spend more time doing some research before you make things up. Yes, you are wrong about everything, and judging by your sentence constructions and lousy punctuation, I conclude that you're not only a fucking NAZI, but a particularly stupid one. Don't bother responding to me, as I don't feel like wasting another second on a fucking piece of trash like yourself.

[madamerotten]

@871yt