The Slotin Accident

Author Richard Rhodes and health physicist Richard Malenfant describe the criticality accident that exposed physicist Louis Slotin to a fatal amount of radiation.

For more on the Slotin Accident, please see: https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor..., https://www.atomicheritage.org/profil..., https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor..., and https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elemen....

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