RaLa Experiment
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title:
RaLa Experiment
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The RaLa Experiment, or RaLa, was a series of tests during and after the Manhattan Project designed to study the behavior of converging shock waves to achieve the spherical implosion necessary for compression of the plutonium pit of the nuclear weapon. The experiment used significant amounts of a short-lived radioisotope lanthanum-140, a potent source of gamma radiation; the RaLa is a contraction of Radioactive Lanthanum. The method was proposed by Robert Serber and developed by a team led by th
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Test to study nuclear shock waves
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaLa_Experiment
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2010-03-16T12:07:38Z
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2024-08-28T11:14:23Z
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