
S1.4 Pearl Harbour
The Bomb
Graphite Stacking in a High Intensity Regime
The materials involved were fantastically expensive, a running to more than a million dollars. By the time they were done, they had 57 layers of graphite piled up. And they used something like 80 thousand pounds of uranium oxide and 12 thousand, 400 pounds of uranium metal.
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