12 Responses to “Everybody, Scram!”

1. Raghuvansh Says:
   January 28th, 2011 at 9:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296249068 )

   The demon core.

   
   
2. Boiledbeans » Trademark disputes ahoy! Says:
   January 28th, 2011 at 9:14 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296249252 )

   [...] Don’t miss the other question that was posted today! Comments [...] Blame AutoRaja

   
   
3. Rogi Says:
   January 28th, 2011 at 9:46 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296251195 )

   Scene from a Chicago play including the infamous “Demon Core”.

   
   
4. appu s Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 5:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1296278133 )

   trinity nuclear test Blame AutoRaja

   
   
5. udupendra Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 7:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1296286909 )

   Erm, they’re modelling the fireball that an atomic bomb will create – it looks quite similar to the shape of the wiki image for the Trinity test :) Blame AutoRaja

   
   
6. lotuseater Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 7:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1296287807 )

   This is the core of the Fat Man nuclear bomb

   
   
7. jowens Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 3:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296316689 )

   It’s a still from “Louis Slotin Sonata”, a play about a Los Alamos physicist (Slotin) who died as a result of a radiation accident. The object shown is a (half-)sphere of beryllium that surrounds a plutonium core. When Slotin’s screwdriver slipped, the upper half-sphere fell onto the lower half-sphere, causing a fission reaction and radiation that killed Slotin 9 days later. Good question, Rogi! :)

   
   
8. sandesh Says:
   January 29th, 2011 at 9:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296336031 )

   half of the beryllium shell? Blame AutoRaja

   
   
9. Aravind Says:
   January 30th, 2011 at 11:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1296385730 )

   Recreation of the Slotin incident, the criticality accident involving the demon core

   
   
10. dineshk Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 8:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296417600 )

    Louis Slotin’s criticality accident involving the notorious demon core. He is holding the two halves of the Beryllium reflector apart using a screwdriver. The screwdriver slips and the reaction goes critical. He manages to jerk his hand away to separate the two halves saving the others but he dies 9 days later. Nice clue with the “Scram” part.

    
    
11. Bharath Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 8:29 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296419362 )

    The mushroom cloud…God particle? Blame AutoRaja

    
    
12. raklodramA Says:
    January 30th, 2011 at 10:15 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1296425747 )

    Trinity atom bomb test Blame AutoRaja

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