No Immediate Danger?
(Women’s Educational Press, Toronto), that the NRX reactor exploded and one man was killed. In fact, as described above, the reactor did not explode and nobody was killed, and this has been a matter of public record since the 1952 accident. Bertell is possibly confused by a Chalk River incident happening two years before the NRX accident. In December 1950 an operator named Stephen Whalen died when a container of ammonium nitrate exploded in a plutonium separation plant at the site; this incident is also in the public record.
(Women’s Educational Press, Toronto), that the NRX reactor exploded and one man was killed. In fact, as described above, the reactor did not explode and nobody was killed, and this has been a matter of public record since the 1952 accident. Bertell is possibly confused by a Chalk River incident happening two years before the NRX accident. In December 1950 a worker named Stephen Whelan died when a container of ammonium nitrate exploded in a plutonium separation plant at the site; this incident is also in the public record.
