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Does it feature the "tickling the dragon's tail" incident ???. Now that was insane lab method - Marie Curie was at least oblivious about hers.
by tibbydudeza 3y ago
Does it feature the "tickling the dragon's tail" incident ???.
Now that was insane lab method - Marie Curie was at least oblivious about hers.
- falcrist 3y agoThere were two such incidents. The first with Harry Daghlian stacking tungsten bricks around the "demon core" before dropping the final brick into place. The second with Louis Slotin and his infamous screwdriver. The whole idea of getting as close as possible to criticality with neutron reflectors was the part that was "tickling the dragon's tail". Not necessarily just the screwdriver method, which was particularly insane.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoThe movie "Fat Man and Little Boy" dramatizes this with John Cusack playing a fictionalized version of Louis Slotin.