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1946 in Canada

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Historical records for Canada in 1946

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May

Los Alamos Criticality Accident

Slotin, Louis Alexander · Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Slotin receives a lethal radiation dose when a plutonium-core criticality experiment becomes briefly supercritical.

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