SL-1 Reactor: The Fatal Meltdown of the Atomic Frontier

Long before Chernobyl or Fukushima dominated global headlines, the atomic age claimed its first catastrophic victims in the freezing deserts of Idaho. In the dead of night, an isolated experimental military reactor violently exploded, instantly killing three operators and permanently altering the trajectory of American nuclear power. The SL-1 reactor incident was not caused by a massive systemic...