ddoubleez

26 July 1959
A clogged coolant channel resulted in a 30% reactor core meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (now known as the Boeing-Rocketdyne Nuclear Facility) in the Simi Hills area of Ventura County, California. Most of the radioactive fission products were trapped, but gasses were vented which resulted in the release of the third greatest amount of radioactive iodine-131 in nuclear history. The incident was largely covered up until a class-action suit was filed by local residents, who successfully sued for $30 million over cancer and thyroid abnormalities contracted due to their proximity to the facility.

2 September 1944
Peter Bragg and Douglas Paul Meigs, two Manhattan Project chemists, were killed when their attempt to unclog a tube in a uranium enrichment device led to an explosion of radioactive uranium hexafluoride gas exploded at the Naval Research Laboratory in Philadelphia, PA. The explosion ruptured nearby steam pipes, leading to a gas and steam combination that bathed the men in a scalding, radioactive, acidic cloud of gas which killed them a short while later.

21 August 1945
Louis Slotin , a physicist, was killed during the final stages of the Manhattan Project undertaken at Los Alamos, New Mexico to develop the first atomic bomb) from a radiation burst released when a critical assembly of fissile material was accidentally brought together by hand. This incident pre-dated remote-control assembly of such components, but the hazards of manual assembly were known at the time (the accident occurred during a procedure known as "tickling the dragon's tail"). A similar incident occurred nine months later (dramatized in the Hollywood movie Fat Man and Little Boy); this time, eight people were exposed, one of whom died days later. Hand-maniuplations of critical assemblies was abandoned only after another accident on 30 December 1958.

2 July 1956
Nine persons were injured when two explosions destroyed a portion of Sylvania Electric Products' Metallurgy Atomic Research Center in Bayside, Queens, New York.

1957
A radiation release at the the Keleket company resulted in a five-month decontamination at a cost of $250,000. A capsule of radium salt (used for calibrating the radiation-measuring devices produced there) burst, contaminating the building for a full five months.

30 December 1958
A nuclear criticality accident occured from a solution in a plutonium recovery operation at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. The operator died later of acute radiation sickness. The March, 1961 Journal of Occupational Medicine printed a special supplement devoted to the medical analysis of this accident.

1959
A partial sodium reactor meltdown occurred at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley Hills, California.

5 October 1966
A sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown at Detroit Edison's Enrico Fermi I demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit, Michigan. Radioactive gases leaked into the containment structures, but radiation was reportedly contained.

1974
Whistleblowers at the Isomedix company in New Jersey reported that radioactive water was flushed down toilets and had contaminated pipes leading to sewers. The same year a worker received a dose of radiation considered lethal, but was saved by prompt hospital treatment.

1982
International Nutronics in Dover, New Jersey, which used radiation baths to purify gems, chemicals, food, and medical supplies, experienced an accident that completely contaminated the plant, forcing its closure. A pump malfunctioned, siphoning water from the baths onto the floor; the water eventually was drained into the sewer system of the heavily populated town of Dover. The NRC wasn't informed of the accident until ten months later -- and then by a whistleblower, not the company. In 1986, the company and one of its top executives were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy and fraud. Radiation has been detected in the vicinity of the plant, but the NRC claims the levels "aren't hazardous."

1986
The NRC revoked the license of a Radiation Technology, Inc. (RTI) plant in New Jersey for repeated worker safety violations. RTI was cited 32 times for various violations, including throwing radioactive garbage out with the regular trash. The most serious violation was bypassing a safety device to prevent people from entering the irradiation chamber during operation, resulting in a worker receiving a near-lethal dose of radiation.

ca. December 1991
One of four cold fusion cells in a Menlo Park, CA, laboratory exploded while being moved; electrochemist Andrew Riley was killed and three others were injured. The other three cells were buried on site, leading to rumors that a nuclear reaction had taken place. A report concluded that it was a chemical explosion; a mixture of oxygen and deuterium produced by electrolysis ignited when a catalyst was exposed. The Electric Power Research Institute, which spent $2 million on the SRI cold fusion research, suspended support for the work pending the outcome of an investigation

BackdoorJesus

what has ANY of that last post got to do with the Large Hadron Collider?

Please, at least TRY to make a point in your own words after you copy & paste the alarmist crap you find.

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licupssy

Well, as far as it goes we'll know for sure some time after next Wednesday's start up. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle4682260.ece

It seems like any more there are so many half baked opinions that show up on the internet. This Wagner and his associate appear to have little qualifications in the first place but the reasoning for filing a court case in Hawaii federal court seems like grand standing. What jurisdiction the US Federal court would have on something happening in France and/ or Switzerland is beyond me. Sounds similar to a Bigfoot hoax to me.

If a group of high qualified experienced Nuclear Physicist were concerned, it might scare me. Then with the consideration that if it does destroy the earth, France will be one of the first countries to be sucked into the black hole it produces. That could be highly satisfying.

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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good! ~~~SWTWC

BackdoorJesus

ok yeah...not completely serious, but it was on topic at least.

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shiiboi

Hoo-ahh! It's powering up 8AM GMT tomorrow morning! Forget global warming, black hole here we come!

thecowboy

click on one of our sponsors! OR REMOVE ADS

Bwahahahah Are you serious? So the only "news" by your definition is NPR and PBS which are funded by a combination of government, corporate donations, and multi-millionaire philanthropists? How is that more newsworthy than any other news station? Do you think if NPR said something bad about Wal-Mart, Wal-mart would still donate? Probably not. Just like Wal-mart wouldn't pay for ad time on abc if too much bad stuff was said about them.

Everyone's got to get their funding from somewhere man, and that funding is always subject to being withdrawn.

93crawler

They're firing up this bad-boy tomorrow right? I personally can't wait, black hole or not.

CD

I'm all for finding out what this sucker can do!



However, if it creates a black hole that destroys Earth... in hindsight, we probably shouldn't have created it in that case.

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shiiboi

Well, they fired that sucker up and we're still here.

Hey, what's this button do?

licupssy

That's the button for the emergency fire suppression system and computer shutdown!

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I solemnly swear that I am up to no good! ~~~SWTWC

ddoubleez

LOL!

People in my circles refer to npr as national petroleum radio...

You and I are in agreement about npr and pbs, and it is unfortunate that you are not aware of public news that is not underwritten...

In addition, this administration has slashed funding to public broadcasting every year....

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And this is offsubject, but your post stayed and so should mine, right... LOL!



Sorry to upset you, friend.. If you could define an alarmist's crap, maybe I could use it to help me out.... Because, up until now, I thought it was a vague label used by someone to discredit someone elses pov that is contrary to theirs when they have no defense... Lots of republicans referred to scientists that were warning about the energy crisis and global warming alarmists, but soothsayer is looking to be more accurate label.....



Now for clarification, I was posting things have gone wrong in the past, and sometimes been covered up with other atomic programs, which the super colider is, and I do not think that we have much to worry, but if we do not look to the past we can not make safe decisions about the future.... On a personal note, the original site was supposed to be here, and I was sad to hear that it went overseas, where it will benefit another economy.... But this administration has been writing incentives to move big business overseas, so you would assume that it would be logical for someone else to get the bid....

Bigeme

I'd rather die in a blackhole than not find out what this sucker can do. People are always looking for the meaning of life. It's pretty easy. FIgure out what the universe is and how it works. If that search results in the end of the world, then who cares? We weren't really doing much in the scheme of things anyway. <Insert Carl Sagan/Nietzche quote>

BDJ: I wanted to rep you at least three times on this thread.