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He describes the device and the results of the test and states that the explosion was created by "13 and a half pounds of plutonium". The pit was a 9.0 cm sphere, solid except for an approximately 2.5 cm cavity in the center for the modulated neutron initiator. The solid three design was a conservative one suggested by Robert Christy to minimize asymmetry three and instability problems during implosion. The sphere had a 2.5 cm hole and plutonium plug to allow initiator insertion after assembly of the sphere. The plutonium was produced by the nuclear reactors at Hanford, Washington; although it three is possible that about 200 g of plutonium produced by the experimental X-Reactor at Oak Ridge was also used. Due to the very short 100 day irradiation periods used during the war (wartime production meant that the plutonium had to be separated as quickly as feasible after being bred), this was super-grade weapon plutonium containing only about 0.9%
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