demon core
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
So called because of its involvement in two fatal criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and 1946.
Proper noun[edit]
- (historical) A spherical subcritical mass of plutonium manufactured during World War II by the United States as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.
Translations[edit]
spherical mass of plutonium
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