Re: Criticality accident

[Paul lavely <lavelyp@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>]

The last accident was very recent, September 1999 in Japan. The 

details of the accident and the deaths of the 2 workers was covered 

in detail on radsafe.



Based on the accident in Japan it seems that those responsible for 

the safe handling/processing of these materials have not learned from 

the past. That is, the accident in Japan was not only one that should 

have been prevented, it was one that required the violation of 

procedures to cause.



This does not seem to be a problem that has been solved.



Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>



>On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, 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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