America’s fatal nuclear accident you’ve never heard of

Dale M. Brumfield

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Jan 21, 2019

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Around 9:10 p.m. on January 3, 1961, first responders rushed to the site of the Stationary Low-Power Nuclear Reactor Number One (or SL-1) forty miles west of Idaho Falls, Idaho after a routine automatic fire alarm went off. As they approached…