Louis Alexander Slotin21 May 1946
Slotin receives a lethal radiation dose when a plutonium-core criticality experiment becomes briefly supercritical.
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Slotin receives a lethal radiation dose when a plutonium-core criticality experiment becomes briefly supercritical.
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