RE: blue flash and criticality accidents

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

Dear Radsafers,

Happy to report that debunking of the mythology associated with the infamous
historical criticality accidents has finally begun. 

Posted at this site is a colleague's take on the L. Slotin accident at Los
Alamos (see especially notes below the biographical article reproduced from
elsewhere -- providing a bit of nuclear science perspective and other
relevant facts).

http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/manitoba/slotin.html

Canada's Nuclear Pioneers

By Morgan J. Brown, P. Eng. 
Chair, Manitoba Branch of the Canadian Nuclear Society 

There have been many Canadians amongst the pioneers in nuclear science and
technology.   I hope to add more pages in the future, commemorating these
people and their work. 
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....hope the good meme spreads to all the other web sites !

Thanks.

Jaro
frantaj@aecl.ca
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