EVACUATION OF BUILDING
Radioactive Gas Threat
(N.ZJ’A.-Reuter—Copyright)
LONDON, January 28.
Part of an English university was evacuated today after a student dropped a glass tube containing radio-active gas.
The accident caused radioactivity in the laboratory to rise five times above normal
The accident occurred at Exeter University, in Devon. An official inquiry will be held tomorrow.
A research graduate experimenting alone at the time dropped the tube, containing krypton gas. Krypton is a rare inert gaseous element, without colour or odour.
Geiger counters monitored his clothing for radio-activity, but he was found to be all right The entire building was also checked for radioactivity.
The physics professor, Professor Keith Conn, said: “Everyone was told to leave the building immediately, and there was no panic.
“Although this is the first accident of the kind since I came here in 1956, we have a set drill for this kind of accident.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13
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