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As to what people would play with without "gloves and a mask": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core "After Slotin's
by akavel 12y ago
As to what people would play with without "gloves and a mask":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
"After Slotin's accident, hands-on criticality experiments were stopped, and remote-control machines were designed by Schreiber, one of the survivors, to perform such experiments with all personnel at a quarter mile distance." Note: "After"... so what was the situation before?...
- cjslep 12y agoThey would raise and lower the top half of the core with their bare hands, a screwdriver, and lots of shims. Literally hands-on criticality experiments.