File:Plutonium Vortex.jpg

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I am the original and sole author of this work. It illustrates the criticality accident which took place at the Los Alamos nuclear lab on Dec. 30th 1958 in which plutonium which was being extracted from other materials in an aqueous solution of acids went supercritical when concentrated in a vortex and killed the observing technician, Cecil Kelley.

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