[ RadSafe ] How many curies were involved in Hiroshima

[Mark Ramsay]

Franz

All explained in a book called 'Idaho Falls' (ISBN 1-55022-562-6).

Book link here: 
http://tinyurl.com/68hcn73

Believe as you wish - I still think the book is a very food reason.

Rgs

Mark



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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
Sent: 21 June 2011 20:42
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] How many curies were involved in Hiroshima

Roy,

You mentioned in your post the SL-1 accident.. I was in highschool then, not really being to much interested in such news, but I do not remember that I ever heard or read anything about it until about the early eighties when we loaned at my Austrian ministry.films from the IAEA about nuclear explosions and also about the SL-1 accident. Since I had in the course of my work at that ministry   to deal with nuclear accidents I got a little deeper in the story, but I never ever read about any hints of sabotage. We unfortunately have now any number of suicide bombers, but at that time and at that accident I cannot believe that any fools (sorry, I cannot think of any other word) would have deliberately infiltrated the SL-1 crew, deliberrately drawn out the control rods by their bare hands to cause an explosion, which caused the death of three (!!!) persons - in present cynical speak a negligible "efficiency". 

Could you explain more about this "sabotage"? 

Best regards, 

Franz






---- ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> schrieb:
> How about the SL-1 accident, see
> http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm?   "3 January 1961: A 
> reactor explosion (attributed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
> source to sabotage) at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho 
> Falls, Idaho, killed one navy technician and two army technicians, and 
> released radioactivity "largely confined" (words of John A. McCone, 
> Director of the Atomic Energy Commission) to the reactor building.  
> The three men were killed as they moved fuel rods in a "routine" 
> preparation for the reactor start-up. One technician was blown to the 
> ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body 
> remained there until it was taken down six days later. The men were so 
> heavily exposed to radiation that their hands had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste, and their bodies were interred in lead coffins."
> 
>  Roy Herren
> 
> 

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