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A literal pile of cylinders rises 11 meters high inside a graphite box, filling the dimensions of a cavernous hall. The towering grid of over 2,000 tubes is a jaw-dropping,… Click to show full abstract
A literal pile of cylinders rises 11 meters high inside a graphite box, filling the dimensions of a cavernous hall. The towering grid of over 2,000 tubes is a jaw-dropping, necktwisting display. Yet size and symmetry aren't all that make this a humbling sight. This is the core of a nuclear reactor, one that produced the plutonium for the Trinity atomic bomb test—and for “Fat Man,” the bomb that razed Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
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Journal Title: IEEE Spectrum
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: IEEE Spectrum
Year Published: 2019
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