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Harry Daghlian dropped a neutron deflector in the first incident, Slotin allowed two halves to come together AFAIK.
by djmips 2y ago
Harry Daghlian dropped a neutron deflector in the first incident, Slotin allowed two halves to come together AFAIK.
- elevaet 2y ago> On August 21, 1945, less than a week after Japan notified the US that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, physicist Harry Daghlian was performing an experiment when he accidentally dropped a piece of “tamper” material, used to reflect neutrons back into the core, and triggered a critical mass. Daghlian used his bare hands to pull the mass apart to stop the chain reaction, and absorbed a fatal dose of radiation. He died three weeks later.