Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident by William McKeown
English | September 22nd, 2008 | ISBN: 1550225626 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1.00 MB
When asked to name the world's first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history's best-kept secrets: the world's first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho's Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty.