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Ciro Santilli
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Trinity
(nuclear test, 1945-07-16, first nuclear weapon detonated)
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Particle physics
Nuclear physics
Nuclear weapon
Nuclear weapons program
American nuclear weapons program
Manhattan Project
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Nuclear weapon test
Plutonium
-based.
Its plutonium was produced at
Hanford site
.
Figure 1.
Source
.
Video 1.
Trinity Test Preparations by AtomicHeritage (2016)
Source
. Appears to be a compilation of several videos, presumably each with their own separate
LA-UR
, though these are not noted. Credited: "Video courtesy of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Archives", TODO how to search that archive online?
Video 2.
Trinity
: Getting The Job Done
.
Source
. Good video, clarifies several interesting technical points:
Gun-type fission weapon
were much easier to build as you don't need super synchronized charges as in
implosion-type fission weapon
. But they are less efficient.
Plutonium
make much more efficient usage of
uranium
, because you don't need to highly enrich a bunch of
Uranium-235
in the first place, but rather just use way less enriched
Uranium-235
to produce a bunch of
Plutonium
by converting
Uranium-238
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