You forgot the REST of the story. He told everyone not to move. He then chalked around his feet, and then the feet of everyone else, to get their position and distance relative to the critical mass.
Yes, he died, within days. And most of the others, within weeks or months.
But he got the data from the event.
And THAT, friends, is a genuine scientist. . .
I didn’t know everybody died!!! what a lousy ending lol
I though they lived long lives.
The others besides Louis Slotin died many years later. The first "next" death occurred 19 years later.
http://www.orau.org/ptp/pdf/accidentsurvivorslanl.pdf
Wiki has a summary table with names and causes of deaths from this second incident.
wow! that is an incredible story
As for this woman in Chernobyl I would be more afraid of her acquiring super powers more than anything else.