There were three victims of the accident. One was dead when rescue teams entered the building. One was alive and was removed by emergency personnel and died while being transported by an ambulance. The third was not located for several hours until rescue crews spotted his body lodged in the ceiling by a control rod.
There is no documentation to indicate the bodies were treated with caustic solution. Some early news reports stated the hands and heads were removed, but the NRF staff refutted this claim. The bodies were scrubbed with laundry detergent and clothing was removed. They were then interred in lead coffins.
http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
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The SL-1 control rods did not shoot out of the reactor. The water hammer caused by the supercritical mass broke the external piping and sent the reactor flying three meters into the air. The vessel collided with equipment room floor above, ejecting the control rod mechanisms and then falling to the ground below. The operator was impaled when the vessel carried him upward.
This, of course, is interesting but not especially important in the discussion of the Toshiba reactor.
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There were three victims of the accident. One was dead when rescue teams entered the building. One was alive and was removed by emergency personnel and died while being transported by an ambulance. The third was not located for several hours until rescue crews spotted his body lodged in the ceiling by a control rod. There is no documentation to indicate the bodies were treated with caustic solution. Some early news reports stated the hands and heads were removed, but the NRF staff refutted this claim. The bodies were scrubbed with laundry detergent and clothing was removed. They were then interred in lead coffins. http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm
Minor edits: The SL-1 control rods did not shoot out of the reactor. The water hammer caused by the supercritical mass broke the external piping and sent the reactor flying three meters into the air. The vessel collided with equipment room floor above, ejecting the control rod mechanisms and then falling to the ground below. The operator was impaled when the vessel carried him upward. This, of course, is interesting but not especially important in the discussion of the Toshiba reactor.