What if the Demon Core was worse?

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Published on June 7, 2025 5:45:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZknpvMFkUy4

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In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains the counterfactual physics of history’s most infamous criticality accidents.

SOURCES:
The Criticality Accident in Sarov, IAEA (PDF): https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub1106_scr.pdf
A Review of Criticality Accidents, Los Alamos National Lab (PDF): https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003731912.pdf

00:00 Intro
01:20 Prompt Critical
05:27 Sarov
09:16 Catch22

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