Neutron reflectors are used to surround the core, and as the nuclear fission reaction occurs ... Unperturbed by the gruesome death of his predecessor and colleague, Louis Slotin would continue ...

In this form, the demon core could have easily been the foundation for groundbreaking early experiments in nuclear energy generation for commercial service. But instead, the demon core served a ...

Harry Daghlian (CC-BY-SA 3.0, Arnold Dion) Slotin assembled the core of ... it isn’t nuclear material, but dead is dead. You don’t get points for having a cleaner accidental death.

The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor began melting ... help to disassemble the reactor’s damaged core. The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter.