RE: accident at a Japanese nuclear fuel facility

["Boston, Robert D" <bostonrd@id.doe.gov>]

A nuclear criticality could provide >1000 rad (10 Gy) in a few milliseconds

Opinions here are clearly my own.

Robert Boston
Nuclear Safety Analysis - DOE-ID
850 Energy Drive MS 4160
Idaho Falls, ID 83401-1563
208-526-0356 pager 6-4444 #4413 Fax 6-7414
bostonrd@id.doe.gov


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bjorn Sandstrom [SMTP:sandstrom@ume.foa.se]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:03 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: accident at a Japanese nuclear fuel facility
> 
> At 07:11 1999-09-30 -0500, you wrote:
> >But he said that a ``criticality incident'' may have caused the accident,
> >which temporarily caused radiation levels to race up 4,000 times higher
> than
> >normal.
> 
> To me, 4,000 times higher than normal seems a petty number to have caused
> what later is described as 
> 
> >what would be Japan's worst injury from a nuclear accident.
> 
> 
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