Credit: Public Domain, Los Alamos National Laboratory Creator [skelly] has designed the lamp to replicate the Slotin incident, where the spherical Demon Core was placed inside two half-spheres of ...

Three more people in the room at the time of the incident also died of radiation-induced illnesses at various points after the accident. Amazingly, the demon core was slated for use in the nuclear ...

Why is it called the demon core? Believe it or not, there was actually another incident the year before -- on August 21, 1945 -- just a few days after Japan's surrender. Again while researching ...

The Demon Core (Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory ... Recreation of the Slotin Incident (via Atomic Heritage) Usually, Slotin used spacers for keeping the spheres from closing completely ...

Recreation of the Slotin incident. Photo: Los Alamos National ... The core had been known as Rufus but was now the “demon core.” One of the survivors of the accident would go on to design ...

Following the end of World War 2 and the devastating impacts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, the Cold War was looming. The immense destruction and power promised by atomic bombs ...

Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both scientists died after their hands slipped, causing the core to release deadly ...

Following the end of World War 2 and the devastating impacts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, the Cold War was looming. The immense destruction and power promised by atomic bombs ...