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Russia's Demon Core - Sarov Criticality Accident

S1 · E26 · 07 Jun 2025 · 14 min

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In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains the counterfactual physics of history’s most infamous criticality accidents.