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Re: Criticality accident



The Tokaimura criticality accident, on September 30, 1999, killed 2 workers.  See

<http://www.uic.com.au/nip52.htm>.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Curies forever.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com





BERNARD L COHEN wrote:



> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:

>

> >

> > There have been 22 such accidents since 1943, 21 of them in solution (liquid)

> > media.

> >

> > There have been 9 fatalities altogether (I think I remember this number

> > correctly).

>

>         --How long has it been since the last fatal accident. I was under

> the impression that all of these accidents happened before about 1965. If

> so, that is important because it indicates that the problems have been

> solved.

>

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