Los Alamos Lab Conducts 'Almost-Nuclear' Test
Credit: LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
Sometime in the next few weeks, powerful X-ray beams fired through the heart of a high-explosive detonation will provide valuable information about how plutonium acts during a nuclear implosion. Conducted in a maze of tunnels 1,000 ft. underground here, the latest "subcritical" experiment will mark...
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