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Oak Ridge Team Replicates Hanford “McCluskey Room” Incident

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A postgraduate student intern and an Oak Ridge Associated Universities researcher in Tennessee are working to replicate an infamous 1976 radiation accident at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
The event exposed Harold McCluskey, a chemical…

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