Safety Tests on Hand Stacking of U-235 Cubes (open access)

Safety Tests on Hand Stacking of U-235 Cubes

From abstract: "Critical assembly tests have been made on the Pajarito Universal Machine to determine the safety limits of handstacking cubes of 95% U-235 in spherical geometries preparatory to making critical assemblies of U-235 in an "infinite" tuballoy tamper. The U-235 cubes were stacked as pseudospheres in a cavity at the top of a tuballoy block 12" high and 8" on a side, and the assembly tamped by locating it inside a doughnut shaped water tank whose tamping effect is equivalent to the tamping caused by personnel necessary for hand stacking."
Date: October 11, 1948
Creator: Josephson, V.; Young, D. S. & Dike, R. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library