On: The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016)

[akira2501]

I've always found the Tokaimura accidents to be a little "creepier." A vat of liquid can end up in a state of mixture and configuration that causes it suddenly become critical. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accidents

[lxgr → akira2501]

> A vat of liquid can end up in a state of mixture and configuration that causes it suddenly become critical.

It can indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid...

[Arn_Thor → lxgr]

I have seldom come across a casual sentence as chilling as "bone marrow that was watery and contained no red blood cells".

[lordfrito → lxgr]

Wow what an interesting article, especially the part about the plutonium liquid vortex reaching criticality. Fascinating (but sad) stuff. Shame how his widow was treated afterwards.