Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
It started with a scene in a Mission Impossible movie, and ended up with a bunch of custom neutron simulations. There are a lot of meme's about the demon core and it's criticality accidents, but I decided to actually simulate how dangerous it would be to play games with the pits as a ball.
The simulation work was performed using OpenMC, I'm a complete newbie to this, so don't trust your life with my results, please don't go bowling with nuclear pits unless you have a camera crew nearby, but not so nearby that they'd exceed safe radiation doses.
openmc.org
Gavin's code for the case simulation is here, it's useful for getting started:
gist.github.com/gridley/bb8c0f358b84d0838926eefb568c515c
Follow me on Twitter for more updates:
twitter.com/DJSnM
I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:
discord.gg/zStmKbM
If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
patreon.com/scottmanley
It started with a scene in a Mission Impossible movie, and ended up with a bunch of custom neutron simulations. There are a lot of meme's about the demon core and it's criticality accidents, but I decided to actually simulate how dangerous it would be to play games with the pits as a ball.
The simulation work was performed using OpenMC, I'm a complete newbie to this, so don't trust your life with my results, please don't go bowling with nuclear pits unless you have a camera crew nearby, but not so nearby that they'd exceed safe radiation doses.
openmc.org
Gavin's code for the case simulation is here, it's useful for getting started:
gist.github.com/gridley/bb8c0f358b84d0838926eefb568c515c
Follow me on Twitter for more updates:
twitter.com/DJSnM
I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:
discord.gg/zStmKbM
If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
patreon.com/scottmanley
