Download Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident AudioBook Free
When asked to mention the world's first major nuclear automobile accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl catastrophe. Disclosed in this e book is one of American history's best-kept secrets: the world's first nuclear reactor automobile accident to declare fatalities occurred on United States land. Chronicled here for the first time is the weird tale of SL-1, a armed service test reactor positioned in Idaho's Lost River Desert that exploded on the night time of January 3, 1961, getting rid of the three-man maintenance team working. Through details uncovered in recognized documents, firsthand accounts from recovery personnel and nuclear industry insiders, and exclusive interviews with the subjects' young families and friends, this e book probes interesting questions about the disastrous blast that have continued to be unanswered for more than 40 years. From accounts of your faulty reactor design and mismanagement of the reactor's facilities to rumors of incompetent employees and a failed romance that prompted deliberate sabotage of the vegetable, these plausible explanations for the explosion increase questions about whether the truth was deliberately suppressed to safeguard the nuclear energy industry.
