A Brief History of: The Y-12 Criticality Incident (Short Documentary)

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A Small mistake in product handling can have long reaching ramifications and in 1958 one such mistake led to a 15-20 minute critialicallity excursion and 8 people being exposed to radiation with 5 being hospitalised for over 40 days. In this video we are looking at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Y-12 criticality accident.

No surprise this Incident happened under Union Carbides Watch.

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Sources:

1.https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/16291912-2PMGg0/16291912.pdf

2.https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1214/ML12146A217.pdf

3.https://www.y12.doe.gov/sites/default/files/assets/document/2012-05-11.pdf

4.https://ncsp.llnl.gov/LA13638/reports/007.ref_007.pdf

5.http://knoxblogs.com/atomiccity/2014/06/14/nuclear-survivor-bill-clark-recalls-1958-criticality-accident-life-since/

6.https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc173360/m1/1/

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