Image: Partially-reflected-plutonium-sphere

Description: A sphere of plutonium surrounded by neutron-reflecting blocks of tungsten carbide. A re-creation of the August 21, 1945 criticality accident at Los Alamos to measure the radiation produced when an extra block was added, making the mass supercritical.
Title: Partially-reflected-plutonium-sphere
Credit: From LANL's report on criticality accidents, 2000, http://www.csirc.net/docs/reports/la-13638.pdf PDF at http://www.csirc.net/library/la_13638.shtml
Author: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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