21 May 1946Los Alamos Criticality AccidentLouis Alexander Slotin
Slotin receives a lethal radiation dose when a plutonium-core criticality experiment becomes briefly supercritical.
Historical records for Canada in 1946, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Slotin receives a lethal radiation dose when a plutonium-core criticality experiment becomes briefly supercritical.
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