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Idaho Falls: the untold story of America's first nuclear accident

✍ Scribed by McKeown, William Thomas


Publisher
ECW Press
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
314 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Idaho Falls (Idaho), Idaho--Idaho Falls.
ISBN
1554905435

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Nuclear apprenticeship -- Atomic energy meets the Cold War -- "There must be something wrong at SL-1" -- Wayward atoms -- "Caution: radioactive materials" -- Accident aftermath -- Murder-suicide? -- Nuclear legacy.;Was the world's first fatal nuclear accident -- the 1961 explosion of a SL-1 military test reactor in Idaho -- the result of a crime of passion? Was the disaster promptly covered up to protect the burgeoning nuclear industry? Idaho Falls documents one of America's best-kept secrets and investigates the question of conspiracy.

✦ Subjects


Idaho -- Idaho Falls


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