Re: searching for criticality accident reports

[Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

About Sarov (Arzamas-16), March 11, 1963, the IAEA has published The

Criticality Accident in Sarov, however in 1997 - On 17 June 1997 a physicist

working as a senior technician at the Nuclear Centre, Sarov, in the Russian

Federation, was severely exposed as a result of a criticality accident with

an assembly of high enriched uranium. The exposure, which caused a high

neutron radiation dose, led to death within three days despite prompt

medical attention.....



you can find it in the IAEA site:

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1106_scr.pdf



About the rest why you don't use the IAEA INIS database?

http://www.iaea.org/inis/







Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel



----- Original Message -----

From: "Minnema, Douglas" <Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov>

To: "Radsafe (E-mail)" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:05 PM

Subject: searching for criticality accident reports





>

> Dear RADSAFErs,

>

> I am currently working on a project that has me reviewing the previous

> criticality accidents again.  This time I am more focused on the victims

> than on the accident itself.   What I am finding is that for most of these

> accidents, much has been written about the technical aspects of the

> progression of the accident in terms of the system involved.  However, for

> those accidents that involved injuries or fatalities, I have not found not

> very much detail regarding the clinical course of the victims, or about

the

> events immediately following the accident.  What I am looking for are

> detailed accident investigation reports (not summaries or review papers)

or

> any other documents that may contain eyewitness or near-first person

> descriptions of the accident and the immediate responses.  There are some

> accidents that I already have enough information on, so I am focusing on

> those listed below:

>

> - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, NM, USA, August 21, 1945

> - Mayak, USSR, March 15, 1953

> - Mayak, USSR, April 21, 1957

> - Mayak, USSR, January 2, 1958

> - Boris Kidrich Institute, Yugoslavia, October 15, 1958

> - Sarov (Arzamas-16), March 11, 1963

> - Wood River Junction, RI, USA, July 24, 1964

> - Mol, Belgium, December 30, 1965

> - Chelybinsk-70, USSR, April 5, 1968

> - Mayak, USSR, December 10, 1968

> - Siberian Chemical Combine, USSR, December 13, 1968

> - Kurchatov Institute, USSR, February 15, 1971

> - Kurchatov Institute, USSR, May 26, 1971

> - RA-2, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 23, 1983

>

> I realize that in some cases this information may not be available at all,

> but any help would be appreciated.  Please e-mail me directly at the

address

> below if you have something that you think may be helpful.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Doug Minnema, PhD, CHP

> National Nuclear Security Administration, US DOE

> <Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov>

>

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