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Title:
Measurement of Efficiency at Trinity by Sampling
Author(s):
Bainbridge, K. T. [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)]; Anderson, H. L. [Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)]
Document Categories:
General, Miscellaneous, Administrative, Historical, and Multi-Disciplined Progress Reports/General
Document Type:
REPORT
Publication Date:
1945 Apr 13
Declassification Date:
1998 Jun 18
Declassification Status:
Declassified
Document Pages:
4 p.
Accession Number:
ALLA0001772
Document Number(s):
A-84-019
Originating Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
OpenNet Entry Date:
2022 Dec 24
OpenNet Modified Date:
2023 Oct 10
Description/Abstract:
Preliminary to the final test of the gadget it is planned to shoot 100 tons of H.E. This shot is intended to provide some experience in measuring large explosions and will serve as a practice episode. The radioactivity which will be encountered in the final shot will be simulated here by distributing among the boxes of H.E. a solution of a 100 day Hanford slug having about 300 curies of activity. While the geometry and the general nature of the explosion of this 100 ton shot differ in several remarkable respects from that of the final shot, it is expected to afford a much better basis for anticipating the conditions of the gadget shot than is now had.