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...
27 KB (2,473 words) - 17:29, 7 June 2025
Louis Slotin (section Disposal of core)
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...
39 KB (4,467 words) - 10:35, 12 June 2025
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...
8 KB (801 words) - 23:31, 14 June 2025
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...
5 KB (271 words) - 17:00, 4 July 2024
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...
12 KB (1,151 words) - 11:24, 15 December 2024
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...
49 KB (3,639 words) - 00:38, 9 June 2025
[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...
4 KB (498 words) - 15:43, 12 March 2025
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...
38 KB (3,818 words) - 01:00, 26 May 2025
Holy Night: Demon Hunters (Korean: 거룩한 밤: 데몬 헌터스) is a 2025 South Korean action horror film directed by Lim Dae-hee and stars Ma Dong-seok, Seohyun, Lee...
11 KB (1,191 words) - 16:28, 11 June 2025
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...
118 KB (13,491 words) - 01:19, 15 June 2025
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...
25 KB (2,308 words) - 04:56, 3 June 2025
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...
31 KB (2,082 words) - 22:01, 4 May 2025
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...
178 KB (13,128 words) - 09:58, 7 June 2025
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...
13 KB (1,471 words) - 20:47, 5 June 2025
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...
8 KB (619 words) - 14:03, 30 May 2025
temperature, and surroundings. It is an important parameter of a nuclear reactor core or nuclear weapon. The concept is important in nuclear weapon design. Critical...
20 KB (2,877 words) - 07:25, 11 June 2025
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...
64 KB (6,717 words) - 23:11, 11 June 2025
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...
45 KB (4,366 words) - 22:34, 8 June 2025
addictive gameplay, subsequently winning several awards. Demon's Souls introduced many of the core elements that would define the eventual Soulslike genre...
70 KB (6,630 words) - 20:29, 18 May 2025
Pit (nuclear weapon) (redirect from Plutonium core)
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...
56 KB (6,296 words) - 23:16, 13 June 2025
destroy their spiritual cores to cripple them. In exchange, Enmu will grant them a peaceful sleep. During their sleep, the Demon Slayers have idealistic...
75 KB (5,806 words) - 20:54, 8 June 2025
Luckily, Cereza manages to rescue the demon, though Lukaon steals the elemental powers Cheshire gained from the Cores. The two combine their strength and...
22 KB (2,293 words) - 02:23, 5 April 2025
building alone. He discovers that Morrow has built a highly unstable demon core to make himself even more powerful, despite its potential to destroy Los...
12 KB (1,112 words) - 12:28, 12 June 2025
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...
33 KB (3,399 words) - 23:07, 10 June 2025
irradiated American physicist; later dubbed the "Atomic Messiah". The "Demon core" incident left him a sentient, extremely radioactive skeleton. Wernher...
12 KB (722 words) - 17:39, 4 March 2025
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...
13 KB (1,604 words) - 20:20, 1 May 2025
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...
122 KB (11,948 words) - 16:42, 7 June 2025
Trinity. Testing compression against critical mass as inspired by the demon core. Often later used for a 1 kt calibrated explosion. See also Ranger Easy...
15 KB (1,280 words) - 08:38, 4 February 2025
fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 1957 – The Soviet Union successfully...
51 KB (4,995 words) - 11:49, 9 June 2025
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...
14 KB (1,835 words) - 07:26, 5 June 2025