Re: OT: Questions on Bikini Tests Able & Charlie

From: Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker (zili_at_home) ((zili_at_home))
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:03:33 +0100

Am Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:43:30 GMT schrieb "Henry Spencer":

>(Indeed, one thing that's been a headache ever since is the question of
>just what Little Boy's yield was. Not only was there no full-scale test
>beforehand, but the gun bomb used fission fuel so inefficiently that the
>Little Boy design saw little use afterward and none was *ever* tested.
>The yield matters because so much of our data on radiation effects, used
>for setting occupational-exposure standards among other things, is from
>Hiroshima; a revised yield estimate a decade or so ago caused a chain
>reaction :-) including questioning of some existing exposure standards.)

OK, I read numbers in the range of 12 to 20 kt.
Please tell me/us more about these discussions.

cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker) 

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