Research­ing the his­tory of crit­i­cal­ity acci­dents made me won­der how acci­den­tal expo­sure to mas­sive lev­els of radi­a­tion became the de rigueur method of achiev­ing superhero-dom. And, while I sup­pose comic book writ­ers would have a well-formed opin­ion or two on this, I decided to ask a group of peo­ple whose point of view I’d never seen–actual nuclear scientists.

via The Blue Flash: Nuclear Acci­dents and the Ori­gins of Super­hero Ori­gins — Boing Boing.