1. ATOMIC CITY.
- Author
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Nobel, Justin
- Subjects
NUCLEAR accidents ,NUCLEAR reactor design & construction - Abstract
An essay is presented on the so-called Atomic City in Idaho's Lost River desert and the factors that caused the nuclear accident in the area on January 3, 1961. It says that the disaster was caused by the explosion of a nuclear reactor which killed three men in the Stationary Low-Power Plant Number I (SL-I). It notes that the design of the reactor was also linked to occurrence of the accident.
- Published
- 2012