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As someone who has been to a few particle accellerators you would have to know how to disable the safety interlocks to irradiate yourself.
I do not know the circumstances in this case but I am sure he was breaking every safety rule in the book.
There are innocents that cop the same fate.
There was a case of the Japanese Nuclear Industry sequentially hiring unemployed homeless people to mix Uranium 235 salts with minimal protection. The recipe was to mix small quantities of Uranium Hexafluoride into a solvent. These blokes thought the recipe was a waste of time so they did the whole lot at once. The mixture went critical and the room was a bright blue with Cherenkov Radiation. A sure sign of massive nuclear fission reactions. All these workers died of radiation exposure.
There was a big cover up but it still came out.
Bert
Last edited by avandonk; 24-02-2011 at 02:41 PM.
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