Half-Life Histories S01 E26 Russia's Demon Core - Sarov Criticality Accident

"A mini documentary series exploring nuclear weapons, technology, and disasters."

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.