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	Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., (1921-September 15, 1945), was a scientist who died from performing a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site laboratory at the Manhattan Project Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico, on August 21, 1945.
		Daghlian was irradiated as a result of a criticality accident which occurred when he accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core.
		The tungsten bricks were being used as neutron reflectors, which serve to reduce the mass required for plutonium to be critical, and the accidental addition of this brick caused the reaction to go supercritical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr. (178 words)

	Harry James - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Harry James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 - July 5, 1983) was a popular United States musician and band leader, and a well known trumpet virtuoso.
		Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus.
		Harry James played his last professional job on 26 June, 1983 in Los Angeles, California.
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	Harry K. Daghlian - 1 of 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Soon thereafter, the Daghlian family moved to the small coastal community of New London, where young Harry received all of his primary and secondary school education, while his father worked as an X-ray technician and later became supervisor of the X-ray laboratory at the Lawrence and Memorial Hospital.
		As a student at Harbor Elementary School, the young Harry Daghlian played the violin in the school orchestra and seemed to be interested in everything at an early age, winning a silver cup as the most outstanding student at Harbor.
		Daghlian became known as the "father" of the Physics and Astronomy Department at CC and he was a frequent speaker for local civic groups on a variety of subjects ranging from the economic depression of that time to celestial comets.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /FH/LA/Harry_Daghlian.htm (383 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Criticality_accident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is a highly unlikely explanation for the mechanism of blue flash phenomenon for several reasons; one of which being that if the light were emanating from the eye itself, virtually all sensation of directionality of the light would be lost and the observer would see an even blue glow everywhere.
		In fact, the opposite is reported by witnesses to criticality events and the directionality of the blue flash is readily detected (such as in the case of the security officer on duty during the accident involving Harry Daghlian).
		In addition, the flashes seen by the Apollo astronauts was almost always described as being white with only one event described as being "blue with a white cast, like a blue diamond" while descriptions of the blue light accompanying criticality events is practically universally described as being a "blue glow".
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Criticality_accident (1231 words)

	Armenian Cafe
		Daghlian's last major assignment was as an assistant in preparing the plutonium core at the MacDonald Ranch House for the Trinity test in Alamogordo, NM (16 July, 1945).
		At that moment, Daghlian's large figure was standing limply with his arms suspended at his sides, attempting to rationally assess the situation in spite of a flood of varied emotions ranging from embarrassment to fear of the possible consequences he had created.
		In contrast, Daghlian's total-body radiation exposure was estimated to be 480 roentgens of soft x-rays and 110 roentgens of gamma rays, with additional complications arising from the non-uniform distribution of radiation exposure, particularly to the upper body and, especially, to the hands.
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		Harry Jenkins (senior) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Harry Jenkins (senior).
		In May 1983, on the election of the Hawke government, Jenkins was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, a position he held until his retirement in 1985.
		He was succeeded as member for Scullin by his son, Harry Jenkins.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Harry-Jenkins-senior.html (264 words)

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		Daghlian was, in fact, no mere industrial "worker" but a scientist intimately involved with the bomb project.
		Daghlian worked at what was known as the Omega Site, where technicians experimented with pushing hemispheres of plutonium together, then waited for a chain reaction to begin.
		On the evening of August 21, Harry Daghlian was conducting an experiment at the Omega Site when he dropped a thirteen-pound tungsten brick on top of a cabin which held a sphere of plutonium.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n8_v58/ai_15667750 (1427 words)

	RE: criticality accidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But Daghlian's and Slotin's plutonium sphere was in a dry air environment with no way to produce Cerenkov radiation in the lab.
		In Daghlian's case, too much tamper was accidently added when the WC brick fell from his hand and the assembly became "critical".] After dinner, Daghlian attended a scientific lecture at theatre #2, and began thinking about returning to Omega Site that evening to test the third assembly, rather than the following morning as originally planned.
		SED guards were stationed at Omega whenever fissionable material was onsite, in case of fire and, especially, as a deterrent to theft.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/0011/msg00142.html (1446 words)

	A Visit to Trinity Site - Larry Lavitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Within a year of Trinity, both Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin would be dead from massive over-doses of radiation.
		Within a year of the Trinity test, these accidents would claim the lives of two members of the team that assembled the plutonium core at Trinity: Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.
		A senior scientist [Louis Slotin] was demonstrating the technique of critical assembly and associated studies and measurements to another scientist.
	web.ncf.ca /lavitt/louisslotin/trinity.html (512 words)

	Daghlian Memorial Dedication
		Arnold Dion, author of this website, then briefly described Daghlian's involvement with the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, from 1944 to the time of his tragic death in 1945 (full text).
		WHEREAS, Harry Daghlian was a native son of New London who graduated first in his class at Harbor School and first in his class in mathematics at Bulkeley.
		WHEREAS, we gather here today to dedicate this flagpole in a place that was important to Harry Daghlian as a young child and are caused to pause and wonder what other contributions might have been possible had his young life not ended so tragically.
	members.tripod.com /%7EArnold_Dion/Daghlian/memorial.html (626 words)

	List of nuclear accidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		August 21, 1945 – Harry K. Daghlian, Jr, working at Los Alamos Omega site, accidentally created a supercritical mass when he dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium core.
		He quickly removed the piece, but was fatally irradiated in the incident, dying September 15.
		None of the seven observers received a lethal dose, but Slotin died on the 30th from massive radiation poisoning, with an estimated dose of 1000 rad, or 10 gray (Gy).
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_nuclear_accidents.html (8118 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		'''Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.,''' (1921-September 15, 1945), was a scientist who died from performing a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site laboratory at the Manhattan Project Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico, on August 21, 1945.
		On May 20, 2000, Daghlian was memorialized by the city of New London, Connecticut New London, Connecticut.
		http://members.tripod.com/~Arnold_Dion/Daghlian/memorial.html {{bio-stub}} Category:1921 births Daghlian, Harry K., Jr.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Harry+K.+Daghlian,+Jr..html (194 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Slotin’s close colleague, Harry Daghlian, had gone to the laboratory on August 21, 1945, planning to carry out alone the assembly he had watched Slotin complete so often, even though it was against regulations for Daghlian to do this.
		Upon receiving word of the accident, Slotin hurried back and was constantly at Daghlian’s side during the month in which radiation slowly killed him.
		Although Slotin was looking forward to a peacetime position in the Institute of Biophysics and Radiobiology at the University of Chicago, he felt obliged to continue at Los Alamos until another scientist was trained to take his place.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/252-255.htm (1107 words)

	U.S. Government Conducts Medical Experiments on Americans Without Consent
		Nor could the general have concluded that radiation afforded a "pleasant" death had he listened to the doctors who attended Harry Daghlian, a Los Alamos technician who stopped a runaway chain reaction with his hand during a nuclear experiment a week after the Japanese surrender.
		WFI Editor) A government check for $10,000 was given to Daghlian's family in exchange for release forms signed on the day he died that absolved the government of any responsibility for his death.
		Clearly it was disingenuous for anyone connected to the Manhattan Project to pretend that radiation was not dangerous.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /news/nws192.htm (2256 words)

	Criticality accidents report issued
		A critical assembly was created accidentally while the reflecting-blocks were stacked around the Pu sphere.
		The lone experimenter, Harry Daghlian, while moving a block in order to take a measurement had the block slip and drop onto the center of the assembly, causing a "superprompt" criticality event.
		Daghlian removed the dropped block by hand to stop the chain reaction and in doing so received a radiation dose estimated at 510 rem.
	www.lanl.gov /news/releases/archive/00-099.shtml (841 words)

	criticality accidents and the blue glow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thanks again to all of you who visited the Daghlian website
		Daghlian website) noted that a blue glow was associated with
		More to the point, a rerun of the Daghlian accident was performed on
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/0011/msg00208.html (303 words)

	Peter Newport Bragg and Harry K. Daghlian Memorial
		Peter Newport Bragg and Harry K. Daghlian Memorial
		In addition to Holloway, his group consisted of three senior-level investigators - Charles "Charlie" P. Baker, Lionel Daniel Percival "Perc" King and Raemer E. Schreiber.
		A young graduate student, Harry K. Daghlian Jr., would help in finalizing the Purdue studies, and would join them in Los Alamos at a later date.
	www.geocities.com /madelinefelkins/Peternbragg.htm (610 words)

	List of nuclear accidents. Who is List of nuclear accidents? What is List of nuclear accidents? Where is List of ...
		Bragg and Meigs die soon after from whole-body acid burns.[1]
		The radiation is traced to fallout from the Simon test, which occurred two days previously.[8] There is an even worse rainout in June.[9]
		May 19, 1953 – The United States government detonates the 32-kiloton bomb "Harry" at the Nevada test site.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/List_of_nuclear_accidents (5711 words)

	Criticality and Radiation Accidents
		The Atomic Energy Commission, under its mandate from Congress, reported all criticality and radiation accidents in the following documents.
		The use of understatement is astounding, as when the "Table of Criticality Accidents" lists the accidents involving Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, but neglects to include that fact that fatalities were involved.
		Also note that these reports only relate to direct Atomic Energy Commission installations and do not reports accidents in commercial nuclear power plants nor any accidents that occurred within the military.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /host/atomic/accident (388 words)

	Re: Q: Historical Criticality Accident in 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Slotin had been the physicist who helped the medical doctors to estimate the radiation dose absorbed by Daghlian...." The accident, which ended deadly for Slotin, happened long after the war (21.
		I have read several versions of what has happened - not only the Greenpeace version - but all of them agree that Mr.
		Slotin had conducted an unexcusable violation of every safety precautions and of common sense, namely to let two subcritical spheres of plutonium (according to Greenpeace the same pieces, which caused Daghlians death) coming close together, using a screwdriver (!!!!) as his instrument of determining the distance of the two spheres.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/9911/msg00566.html (394 words)

	Rad Journal - Repeating History
		This accident has been compared to two at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.
		In one accident in 1945, Harry Daghlian was killed after he caused a criticality in a sphere of plutonium by dropping a block of tungsten on top of it.
		In the following year, Louis Slotin fell victim to the same fate when a screwdriver he was using to stop a beryllium shell from covering a sphere of plutonium slipped.
	www.radjournal.com /news/japan2.htm (1048 words)

	Re: Energy isn't Everything
		It had been ominously augured by a very similar tragedy six months earlier.
		Harry Daghlian, Slotin's friend and laboratory assistant, had fallen victim to "the invisible killer".
		Deeply saddened by the mishap, Slotin spent many hours at his assistant's bedside during the month it took Daghlian to die." William Hyde EOS Department Duke University
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/rec.arts.sf.written/msg21356.html (303 words)

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	Atomic Age - The Society and Culture Beat - SearchBeat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tells the story of his work, life and death in an accident at Los Alamos.
		Harry Daghlian: America's first peacetime atom bomb fatality - Daghlian worked for the Manhattan Project.
		The site tells his story and serves as a memorial.
	www.searchbeat.com /Society/History/ByTimePeriod/TwentiethCentury/AtomicAge (4809 words)

	The Enchanted Bomb:
		Well, aside from Enrico Fermi, the men most intimately involved in the dangerous exercise of determining the neccessary 'critical mass' needed for the bomb by 'tickling the tail of the sleeping dragon' at the Omega site were Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both of whom eventually died while performing this work.
		The screwdriver in his hand actually did slip and that is how Louis Slotin died at Los Alamos from performing the Dragon experiment, -so did his colleague Harry Daghlian.
		In August of 1945 while Harry Daghlian was dying, and while the Pentagon was denying the nature of the artificial radioactive poisoning of the folks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Leslie Groves told a Congressional hearing that death from this kind of radiation was actually " very pleasant " !
	starpathvisions.com /EnchantedBook.htm (12486 words)

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