Скачать или смотреть The Demon Core: The "Blue Flash" Accident Visualized

One slip of a screwdriver. That was all it took to turn a harmless sphere of plutonium into a lethal monster.

In 1946, physicist Louis Slotin performed a dangerous experiment known as "Tickling the Dragon's Tail" at Los Alamos. Using only a flathead screwdriver to separate two beryllium hemispheres, he held the core at the very brink of criticality. On May 21st, his hand slipped.

This video is a historical visualization of that exact moment—the slip, the blue flash of Cherenkov radiation, and the silence that followed.

Key Events:

The Setup: The 14lb Plutonium Core

The Trick: "Tickling the Dragon's Tail"

The Accident: The Blue Flash

The Aftermath: Louis Slotin's Sacrifice

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