[ RadSafe ] "Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail" PBS special documentary...

Wed Jul 22 21:05:49 CDT 2015

Actually, Louis Slotin was exposed on 5/21/46 by the demon core which was later used in Crossroads for Able (7/1/46).  That same core also killed Harry Daghlian on 8/21/45.  HS-5, 6; R-2 was the third core (after Trinity and Nagasaki).  After Able, Baker (underwater shot at Crossroads) so contaminated the lagoon that fish could auto-radiograph from internal contamination.  The photo below was used to convince Blandy to abandon tests and turn to recovery.  Most of the image is algae consumed by the fish.

Joe Shonka

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From: Rees, Brian G
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Louis Slotin was the only death associated with this accident that occurred during a criticality demonstration.  His death wasn't strange, he received 2100R and died 9 days later. The other people in the room received doses of 360, 250, 160, 65, 47 and 37R, but nobody else died from it.  I believe one of the others may still be alive. 

Brian Rees

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail" PBS special documentary...

Hmmmm,

      Tickling the Dragon's tail??--- the strange  death of Louis Slotkin
--- was a story (true) about the death of Slotkin and  others doing a criticality experiment.  Whoops.

      joe preisig

In a message dated 7/22/2015 5:18:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rjcihak at gmail.com writes:

Derek  Muller, Ph.D. in Physics Education, is the host for a PBS documentary program "Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail" debuting in the  US next week, July 28 & 29, 10 PM eastern & 9 PM central time. It  will be broadcast in France & Germany on July 31 and in his native  Australia on Aug. 9, 16, & 23.
Cf.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO57Zm-WNmg for his introduction  and trailer for the show. 

He is very good on physics and  radiation on the short YouTube videos presented under his "Veritasium"  program name. He's been to Chernobyl and other radiation hot spots. On  these short YouTube videos, I've only noticed one niggly error, viz.,  stating that 2 Sv is fatal to humans, whereas 4-5 Sv is the usual quoted  range for LD50 in untreated humans. 

This program could be a  valuable and entertaining educational tool for the
public.  

He's bad on climate change but has done very little work in  that area.

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