Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Join the very first edition of Science Storytime with Astra, where we tell stories of wildly irresponsible and often deadly science experiments. First up we'll be talking about the Demon Core, a sphere of Plutonium built during the Manhattan Project which was used in many criticality experiments and killed between 2-6 people. We'll be telling this story, trying out the live stream format, answering viewer questions, and likely getting sidetracked a lot.

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Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident