RE: 60th criticality accident

["Jones, Stanley A" <jonessa@ports.usec.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hypes [mailto:phypes@lanl.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:19 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: 60th criticality accident


Now, anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many workers have died
in accidents at oil refineries or non-nuclear power plants since 1945?

At 11:37 AM 10/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>The handouts I received at a criticality safety course at Los Alamos 
>include 21 process line criticality accidents and approximately 30 critical

>assembly / reactor experiment accidents.  These include international 
>accidents (including the former Soviet Union).  These numbers would seem to

>roughly agree with the 60 accidents being reported in the news.
>
>Mike ... mcbaker@lanl.gov
>
>
>
>At 11:20 AM 10/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:32:06 -0400
>>From: "Karam, Andrew" <Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu>
>>To: "'radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu'" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>>Subject: RE: 60th criticality accident
>>Message-ID: 
>><D3CB9FB020BDD211B83300A0C9E9754A01356E43@exmc2.urmc.rochester.edu>
>>
>>our local paper printed today a news from afp (agence france presse),
>>that yesterdays accident in Japan was the 60th criticality accident in
>>history of nuclear power. Can anyone verify or falsify this number or
>>lead me to an appropriate list?
>>--------------------------------

___________________________________________________________
Philip Hypes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Safeguards Science and Technology Group (NIS 5)
(505) 667-1556  phypes@lanl.gov

Opinions expressed are purely my own unless otherwise noted

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