Little Boy replication: justification and construction

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5361353

Malenfant, R E

A reconstruction of the Little Boy weapon allowed experiments to evaluate yield, leakage measurements for comparison with calculations, and phenomenological measurements to evaluate various in-situ dosimeters. The reconstructed weapon was operated at sustained delayed critical at the Los Alamos Critical Assembly Facility. The present experiments provide a wealth of information to benchmark calculations and demonstrate that the 1965 measurements on the Ichiban assembly (a spherical mockup of Little Boy) were in error.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5361353
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-83-3520; CONF-840202-11; ON: DE84004331
• Resource Relation: Conference: 17. midyear topical meeting of the Health Physics Society, Pasco, WA, USA, 5 Feb 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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