**The little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disasterβyears before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima.** Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the worldβs first nuclear reactor meltdown to claim lives happened on US soil. Chronicled here for t
Idaho Falls: the untold story of America's first nuclear accident
β 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.
β¦ 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.
β¦ Subjects
Idaho -- Idaho Falls
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