Half-Life Histories — Season 1, Episode 1: Demon Core - The True Story
Documentary • 14 min • 1 season, 30 episodes
Episode synopsis
In 1946, a P-239 plutonium core scheduled for detonation-by-nuclear-bomb was harmlessly melted down and reintegrated into the United States’ nuclear stockpile. That was the end of a 14-pound metallic sphere that had killed two scientists not 11 months before. This is the true story of the Demon Core.
About Half-Life Histories
A mini documentary series exploring nuclear weapons, technology, and disasters.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2The Elephant's Foot - Corpse of Chernobyl
- E3Castle Bravo Disaster - A "Second Hiroshima"
- E4Radioactive Autopsy - The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident
- E5What if you put your head in a particle accelerator?
- E6SL-1: America's First Nuclear Disaster
- E7Something is Happening at Chernobyl…
- E8The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Epidemic of Ghosts
- E9Goiânia Accident - South America's Nuclear Tragedy
- E10Why are Chernobyl's Radiation Rates Rising?
- E11Will Russia's War Change Chernobyl?
- E12Radiation Killed Douglas Crofut. No One Knows Why.
- E13Three Mile Island - What Really Happened