Re: FW: Russian Criticality Accident

[Jeff Eichorst <u112237@lanl.gov>]

I think the PPE referred to are water-filled insoles.




At 07:59 AM 6/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>______________________________ Reply Separator
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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....
>
>
Jeff Eichorst
Occurrence Investigator
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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