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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Who Was Louis Slotin?

One of the few to die in a criticality accident.

He was fictionalized in the movie, "Fat Man And Little Boy":


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  1. Yes I had read this story somewhere... incredibly dumb really. Boys will be boys :-(

    ...and now I know what a 'dollar' means (it figured in the Bethe link in the earlier nuclear mariner story).

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  2. You've lost me on the 'dollar' comment....

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  3. I meant this old paper by Bethe and Tait now declassified, and referred by John Dudley Miller. Page 5. It's the difference between the critical and prompt-critical chain ratio.

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    1. Ah, yes. I hadn't used that term in decades! Thanks for shaking the cobwebs!

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