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by
Ciro Santilli
(@cirosantilli,
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)
Trinity (nuclear test, 1945-07-16, first nuclear weapon detonated)
tags:
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
Ancestors
Manhattan Project
American nuclear weapons program
Nuclear weapons program
Nuclear weapon
Nuclear physics
Particle physics
Physics
Natural science
Science
Index
Incoming links
Arline Greenbaum
B Reactor
Hanford site
Nuclear reactor
Nuclear weapon
Trinity
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