Name: Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident
Author: William McKeown
ISBN: 9781550225624

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MCKEOWN, William

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident

2003

1. The Nuclear Age

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William McKeown Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident Overview On the night of 3 January 1961, in a corrugated-metal silo in the Idaho desert, a small US Army reactor called SL-1 blew apart and killed the three young servicemen standing on top of it. It was the first — and remains the only — fatal reactor accident on American soil. The government established the mechanical cause down to the millisecond and then declined, in writing, to say why a trained man had done the one thing…

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Accession:FL-0083

ISBN-13:9781550225624

Published:2003

Language:en

Shelved under:The Nuclear Age

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