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RE: SCRAM

	This is my understanding as well.  In fact the "technician" was actually a
graduate student.  I believe the graduate student was Alvin Graves.  Graves
was later involved in the second criticality accident at Los Alamos.

	JERRY THOMAS

At 11:24 10/02/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Just to confuse matters, I had read that the emergency shut down for 
>CP-1 was a technician, poised to empty several gallons of saturated 
>Cadmium Sulphate solution into the graphite/uranium lattice. This would 
>have had the effect of making restarting CP-1 'difficult' and some of 
>the scientists on the project thought that this was unecessary for that 
>reason.
>
>Anyone else care to shed some light on this?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Simon Jerome
>simon.jerome@npl.co.uk
>http://www.npl.co.uk/
>