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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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