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  2. Portal:Current events - Wikipedia

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    A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 76 people dead and injures 51 others.; A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead.

  3. David Hahn - Wikipedia

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    David mowed other people's lawns to help fund his experiments. With one experiment, he created chloroform and as the book encouraged him to sniff the chemical, he did so and was passed out for more than an hour, according to his recollection. David also loved to build fireworks and model rockets, which he altered with his own designs.

  4. Criticality accident - Wikipedia

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    Criticality accidents are divided into one of two categories: Process accidents, where controls in place to prevent any criticality are breached;; Reactor accidents, which occur due to operator errors or other unintended events (e.g., during maintenance or fuel loading) in locations intended to achieve or approach criticality, such as nuclear power plants, nuclear reactors, and nuclear ...

  5. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    Criticality accident in SCR plant. Conducted experiments to determine the critical mass of enriched uranium in a cylindrical container with different concentrations of uranium in solution. Staff broke the rules and instructions for working with YADM (nuclear fissile material). When SCR personnel received doses from 7,600 to 13,000 rem.

  6. Nuclear meltdown - Wikipedia

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    Once the fuel elements of a reactor begin to melt, the fuel cladding has been breached, and the nuclear fuel (such as uranium, plutonium, or thorium) and fission products (such as caesium-137, krypton-85, or iodine-131) within the fuel elements can leach out into the coolant. Subsequent failures can permit these radioisotopes to breach further ...

  7. Did Tri-Cities scientist eat uranium to show radiation was ...

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    Did a Tri-Cities scientist eat radioactive uranium in the ‘80s to prove that it is harmless?. Maybe, says a recent new fact check by Snopes.com. Galen Winsor was a Richland nuclear chemist who ...

  8. List of civilian radiation accidents - Wikipedia

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    An earth/clay dike of a United Nuclear Corporation uranium mill settling/evaporating pond failed. The broken dam released 100 million U.S. gallons (380,000 m 3 ) of radioactive liquids and 1,100 short tons (1,000 t) of solid wastes, which settled out up to 70 miles (100 km ) down the Puerco River [ 11 ] and also near a Navajo farming community ...

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