Re: FW: Russian Criticality Accident

[roseb@SMTP-gw.gdls.com (Boyd H Rose)]

The below article makes a curious statement regarding "personal protective gear"
and neutron exposure.

Is there personal protective equipment which protects individuals against 
neutron exposure?  I have never heard of such equipment in my 12 year academic 
and professional career in health physics.

Boyd H. Rose, CM
Radiation Protection Officer
General Dynamics Land Systems Division

The opinions expresses above are solely my own and do not under any circumstance
reflect those of my employer.

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Subject: FW: Russian Criticality Accident
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet/Unix
Date:    6/24/97 6:16 PM


     
Maybe this has already been posted, but in case: 
Trisha Edgerton, pedgerto@rhb.dhs.cahwnet.gov
     
     [This article obviously predates news of Zakharov's death. 
     From: RIA-Novosti. HotLine.
     entered from URL
     http://www.ria-novosti.com/products/hotline/1997/06/17.htm]
     
     ACCIDENT AT NUCLEAR CENTRE
     
       This has not happened in the closed city of Sarov or
              Arzamas-16 for more than thirty years
     
                    N. POPOVA, V. BUKHALKIN
     
          In the underground bunker of the All-Russia
     Experimental Physics Research Institute there has been 
     a serious violation of the work procedure on the unit 
     where incomplete nuclear reactions are tried 
     out....For some unknown reason, Zakharov was not even 
     wearing any protective gear, so the neutron flow
     which hit him sort of burned him through....