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| DOI | 10.2172/1356107 |
| 报告编号 | LA-UR--17-23523 |
| 来源ID | OSTI_ID: 1356107 |
| The Inglorious Death of Jumbo | |
| Meade, Roger Allen [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)] | |
| 英文摘要 | In the summer of 1944, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Los Alamos faced a crisis. An isotopic impurity in Plutonium rendered the metal unusable in a gun-assembled atomic bomb (i.e., Little Boy). Making this situation worse was a shortage of Uranium. The combination of these two problems threatened the entire wartime project. The answer to this dilemma, in part, was to develop a novel assembly method for Plutonium using the supersonic shock waves created by several tons of high explosives to compress a ball of Plutonium into a supercritical state. Since this method, implosion, was not much more than a theoretical construct, the Trinity test was devised to proof test the process. Given the speculative nature of implosion, Trinity was a gamble of sorts. If the test failed (i.e., little or no nuclear yield), the blast of the high explosives would scatter the scarce and expensive Plutonium over the surrounding desert. Since the probability of failure remained high into the early summer of 1945, some method of containing a failed nuclear explosion was needed. Jumbo was the answer. |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 报告类型 | Technical Report |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 来源学科分类 | 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ; 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE |
| URL | http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/1356107 |
| 资源类型 | 科技报告 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/271447 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Meade, Roger Allen [Los Alamos National Lab. . The Inglorious Death of Jumbo,2017. |
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