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    The demon core was a sphere of plutonium that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic...
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    Daghlian, who had died of a related accident with the same plutonium "demon core" the previous year. Slotin was hailed as a hero by the United States government...
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    nicknamed "Rufus", and became known as the demon core following two successive lethal criticality accidents. The core was melted down in summer 1946 and the...
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  • Demons' Score was a rhythm game developed by iNiS and published by Square Enix for iOS and Android. The gameplay is similar to another iNiS-developed game...
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  • 1945 experiment A re-creation of the Slotin incident. The plutonium "demon core" (the same as in the Daghlian incident) was inside at the time of the...
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    carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg bomb core made of plutonium–gallium alloy. This core, subsequently nicknamed the "demon core", was later involved in the death...
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    [better source needed] Such an effect was exhibited twice in accidents involving the Demon Core, a subcritical plutonium pit that went critical in two separate fatal...
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    dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, known as the demon core, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons...
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    After the death of Daghlian and Slotin, the mass became known as the "demon core". It was ultimately used to construct a bomb for use on the Nevada Test...
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    used in the Trinity test, the Fat Man bomb detonated above Nagasaki, the demon core, and thousands of US warheads during the Cold War. By the early 1960s...
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  • Laboratory in New Mexico with same plutonium bomb core as the Daghlian accident, known as the "demon core". 1 Harry Daghlian 1945, August 21 Criticality...
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    Rocky Flats Plant Techa River Pollution of Lake Karachay 1945 and 1946 Demon core 1942 Leipzig L-IV experiment accident Nuclear safety and security Nuclear...
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    reactivity. In a bomb, a dense shell of material surrounding the fissile core will contain, via inertia, the expanding fissioning material, which increases...
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    would see what I was about to see. Wellerstein, Alex (21 May 2016). "The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin". Annals of Technology. The New...
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    In nuclear weapon design, the pit is the core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded...
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  • Daghlian. Both incidents occurred with the same plutonium core, which became known as the demon core. Even before Oppenheimer was chosen to be the lead scientist...
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    reaction during an accident with what later obtained the nickname the demon core. He received a dose of 5.1 Sv, or 3.1 Gy. He died 16 days after this photo...
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    into the core and its inertia...slowed the core's expansion and helped keep the core surface from blowing away." Rearrangement of the core material's...
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  • Armored Core (Japanese: アーマード・コア, Hepburn: Āmādo Koa) is a third-person shooter mecha video game series developed by FromSoftware. The series centers on...
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  • fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street...
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  • destroy their spiritual cores to cripple them. In exchange, Enmu will grant them a peaceful sleep. During their sleep, the Demon Slayers have idealistic...
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  • addictive gameplay, subsequently winning several awards. Demon's Souls introduced many of the core elements that would define the eventual Soulslike genre...
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  • The Neon Demon is a 2016 psychological horror art film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, co-written by Mary Laws, Polly Stenham, and Refn, and starring...
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  • away from the tennis grass courts at Wimbledon the demon core, the plutonium nuclear weapon core that was involved in two deadly nuclear accidents, was...
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    infamous plutonium mass used in the experiment was referred to as the demon core. Lost source accidents, also referred to as orphan sources, are incidents...
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  • irradiated American physicist; later dubbed the "Atomic Messiah". The "Demon core" incident left him a sentient, extremely radioactive skeleton. Wernher...
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  • Luckily, Cereza manages to rescue the demon, though Lukaon steals the elemental powers Cheshire gained from the Cores. The two combine their strength and...
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  • exposure to the stolen iridium-192 source, prior to it being re-located. Demon core Harry Daghlian Louis Slotin List of unsolved deaths ^ Sources disagree...
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    Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin in criticality accidents involving the demon core. On 10 March 1945, a Japanese fire balloon struck a power line, and the...
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    Legacy” Novella) Set 15 years after The Core The Desert Prince (August 3, 2021) The Hidden Queen (March 5, 2024) The Demon King (Expected in April, 2026) Red...
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