The Man Who Touched the "Demon Core" and Died (Louis Slotin) ☢️💀

Описание: It was an experiment nicknamed "tickling the dragon's tail," and on May 21, 1946, the dragon bit back.

In this video, we recount the terrifying true story of physicist Louis Slotin and the infamous Demon Core. At the Los Alamos laboratory, Slotin was performing a dangerous criticality test, using nothing but a flathead screwdriver to separate two beryllium hemispheres around a sphere of plutonium.

One slip of the hand caused the screwdriver to fall. The hemispheres snapped shut, and a blinding blue flash of Cherenkov radiation filled the room. Discover how Slotin heroically reacted to save his colleagues, sealing his own fate to a lethal dose of radiation that would kill him nine agonising days later.

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