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Crisis in a lockdown: how NIST coped with a radiation leak

22 Apr 2021 Robert P Crease
Taken from the April 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Crisis in a lockdown".

Robert P Crease describes how news of a radiation leak at a US neutron facility was handled in today’s online, networked and locked-down world

NIST Center for Neutron Research
Testing times The NIST Center for Neutron Research had elevated radiation levels on 3 February 2021. (Courtesy: NIST)
On the morning of Wednesday 3 February 2021, the research reactor at the National Institute of Stan

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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