"The world's greatest achievements often happen on the edge of chaos" - Unknown.
Sort of like "Necessity is the mother of invention"?
As it turns out, no.
It's about good old radiation and uranium and government experiments - the Manhattan Project resulting in serious accidents that killed 4 scientists and critically injured others.
Manhattan Project: The Philadelphia Experiment : On September 2, 1944, a group of engineers, some civilian, some military, were working on an experimental facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard when, without warning, it exploded. Peter Bragg and Douglas Meigs, both civilian engineers assigned to the Manhattan Project, were killed; five others were critically injured
In August of 1945 and again, in May 1946, two Los Alamos scientists were exposed to lethal doses of radiation while performing experiments to determine critical mass. These experiments, performed at the Omega Site, Los Alamos, were commonly referred to as "Tickling the Tail of the Dragon". Although several months apart, both accidents occurred on a Tuesday and both on the 21st of the month...and, both men died in the same hospital room at the U.S. Engineers Hospital at Los Alamos: Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. (Dolly-an) 1921 - 1945 and Louis P. Slotin 1910 - 1946
Slotin's death ended all hands-on critical assembly work at Los Alamos. We immediately started work on a remote control system with the critical assembly equipment and the operating crew separated by roughly a quarter mile. We had no more criticality deaths or injuries. Tributes, of all sorts, came in following Slotin's death
Sort of like "Necessity is the mother of invention"?
As it turns out, no.
It's about good old radiation and uranium and government experiments - the Manhattan Project resulting in serious accidents that killed 4 scientists and critically injured others.
Manhattan Project: The Philadelphia Experiment : On September 2, 1944, a group of engineers, some civilian, some military, were working on an experimental facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard when, without warning, it exploded. Peter Bragg and Douglas Meigs, both civilian engineers assigned to the Manhattan Project, were killed; five others were critically injured
In August of 1945 and again, in May 1946, two Los Alamos scientists were exposed to lethal doses of radiation while performing experiments to determine critical mass. These experiments, performed at the Omega Site, Los Alamos, were commonly referred to as "Tickling the Tail of the Dragon". Although several months apart, both accidents occurred on a Tuesday and both on the 21st of the month...and, both men died in the same hospital room at the U.S. Engineers Hospital at Los Alamos: Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. (Dolly-an) 1921 - 1945 and Louis P. Slotin 1910 - 1946
Slotin's death ended all hands-on critical assembly work at Los Alamos. We immediately started work on a remote control system with the critical assembly equipment and the operating crew separated by roughly a quarter mile. We had no more criticality deaths or injuries. Tributes, of all sorts, came in following Slotin's death
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