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Slotin's cautionary tale is such scary founding lore of the nuclear industry... Complacency born from habit is awfully powerful and that may be even scarier.

Slotin's story is such a great example of complacency. "Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol. ... the screwdriver slipped and the upper beryllium hemisphere fell, causing a prompt critical reaction and a burst of hard radiation."

The radiation dosage section of that article is a mess and I think shows a limitation of wikipedia. The writers managed to not use the same unit in any two consecutive sentences and sometimes not even with in the same sentence and don't bother providing any way to relate the different units.

So... fix it?

It's also used as an example in the article.