> The nuclear fuel processing center in central Russia was experimenting with plutonium purification techniques using different solvents for solvent extraction. Some of these solvents carried over to a tank not intended to hold them, and exceeded the fissile safe limit for that tank. Against procedure a shift supervisor ordered two operators to lower the tank inventory and remove the solvent to another vessel. Two operators were using an "unfavorable geometry vessel in an improvised and unapproved operation as a temporary vessel for storing plutonium organic solution"; in other words, the operators were decanting plutonium solutions into the wrong type—more importantly, shape—of container. After most of the solvent solution had been poured out, there was a flash of light and heat. "Startled, the operator dropped the bottle, ran down the stairs, and from the room." After the complex had been evacuated, the shift supervisor and radiation control supervisor re-entered the building. The shift supervisor then deceived the radiation control supervisor and entered the room of the incident; this was followed by the third and largest criticality excursion that irradiated the shift supervisor with a fatal dose of radiation, possibly due to an attempt by the supervisor to pour the solution down a floor drain.
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Serge
Это где и когда?
Karboflex
близко к сердцу не воспринимай там типа в руках раствор пыхнул)
Bga
Где то тут https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/index.html Grozny orphaned source, 1999 https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1999RUS1.html Глупые воры
Serge
А, я думал, что опять на Маяке бахнуло
Jirafivanich
На радио?