Final Report Of Sl 1 Recovery Operation
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Final Report Of Sl 1 Recovery Operation
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Author : General Electric Company. Idaho Test Station. SL-1 Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Final Report Of Sl 1 Recovery Operation written by General Electric Company. Idaho Test Station. SL-1 Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Nuclear reactor accidents categories.
Complete Guide To The 1961 Sl 1 Fatal Nuclear Power Plant Accident Accident And Recovery Operations Reports Official Findings Timeline Of Events Technical Details Safety Implications
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Author : Department of Defense
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-08
Complete Guide To The 1961 Sl 1 Fatal Nuclear Power Plant Accident Accident And Recovery Operations Reports Official Findings Timeline Of Events Technical Details Safety Implications written by Department of Defense and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-08 with categories.
Four official federal government reports provide the full details of the tragic SL-1 prototype nuclear power plant accident of January 3, 1961, the first and only immediately fatal American reactor accident. Three servicemen were killed in the incident at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Major documents in this ebook compilation include the SL-1 Reactor Accident Interim Report, the IDO (Idaho Operations) Report on the Nuclear Incident at the SL-1 Reactor, SL-1 Recovery Operations, and the Final Report of SL-1 Recovery Operation. Other document excerpts provide background information on the reactor and the accident, and NASA'S assessment of the accident and its applicability to spaceflight safety. The SL-1 power plant (originally designated ALPR), prototype for a remote arctic installation, was designed, constructed and initially operated by Argonne National Laboratory. It is located at the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Combustion Engineering was selected as operating contractor for this plant on the basis of their response to an Atomic Energy Commission invitation issued in June, 1958 and assumed operating responsibility on February 5, 1959. After nearly two years of operation a nuclear excursion occurred on the night of January 3, 1961, when a military crew of three men were assembling the reactor control rod drive mechanisms. The resulting blast killed the three crew members, produced extensive damage inside the reactor vessel and secondary damage to the reactor room by ejected missiles. The mechanical and material evidence, combined with the nuclear and chemical evidence, forced investigators to believe that the central control rod had been withdrawn very rapidly. They built a mock-up of the reactor vessel with identically sheathed and weighted control rods. In King Arthur fashion, men of lesser, similar, and greater strength as the crew tried to lift the rod. Most managed with little difficulty. The scientists questioned the cadremen: "Did you know that the reactor would go critical if the central control rod were removed?" Answer: "Of course! We often talked about what we would do if we were at a radar station and the Russians came. We'd yank it out."
Nuclear Accident And Recovery At Three Mile Island
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Nuclear Accident And Recovery At Three Mile Island written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Nuclear power plants categories.
Final Environmental Impact Statement
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Author : United States. Energy Research and Development Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Final Environmental Impact Statement written by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Environmental monitoring categories.
Atomic America
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Author : Todd Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-03-03
Atomic America written by Todd Tucker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with History categories.
On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been overshadowed by the accident at Three Mile Island, SL-1 is the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in American history, and it holds serious lessons for a nation poised to embrace nuclear energy once again. Historian Todd Tucker, who first heard the rumors about the Idaho Falls explosion as a trainee in the Navy's nuclear program, suspected there was more to the accident than the rumors suggested. Poring over hundreds of pages of primary sources and interviewing the surviving players led him to a tale of shocking negligence and subterfuge. The Army and its contractors had deliberately obscured the true causes of this terrible accident, the result of poor engineering as much as uncontrolled passions. A bigger story opened up before him about the frantic race for nuclear power among the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- a race that started almost the moment the nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), where the meltdown occurred, had been a proving ground where engineers, generals, and admirals attempted to make real the Atomic Age dream of unlimited power. Some of their most ambitious plans bore fruit -- like that of the nation's unofficial nuclear patriarch, Admiral Rickover, whose "true submarine," the USS Nautilus, would forever change naval warfare. Others, like the Air Force's billion dollar quest for a nuclear-powered airplane, never came close. The Army's ultimate goal was to construct small, portable reactors to power the Arctic bases that functioned as sentinels against a Soviet sneak attack. At the height of its program, the Army actually constructed a nuclear powered city inside a glacier in Greenland. But with the meltdown in Idaho came the end of the Army's program and the beginning of the Navy's longstanding monopoly on military nuclear power. The dream of miniaturized, portable nuclear plants died with McKinley, Legg, and Byrnes. The demand for clean energy has revived the American nuclear power industry. Chronic instability in the Middle East and fears of global warming have united an unlikely coalition of conservative isolationists and fretful environmentalists, all of whom are fighting for a buildup of the emission-free power source that is already quietly responsible for nearly 20 percent of the American energy supply. More than a hundred nuclear plants generate electricity in the United States today. Thirty-two new reactors are planned. All are descendants of SL-1. With so many plants in operation, and so many more on the way, it is vitally important to examine the dangers of poor design, poor management, and the idea that a nuclear power plant can be inherently safe. Tucker sets the record straight in this fast-paced narrative history, advocating caution and accountability in harnessing this feared power source.
Nuclear Safety
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967-11
Nuclear Safety written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967-11 with Nuclear engineering categories.
Annual Report To Congress Of The Atomic Energy Commission
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Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Annual Report To Congress Of The Atomic Energy Commission written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Nuclear energy categories.
Annual Report To Congress Of The Atomic Energy Commission For
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Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Annual Report To Congress Of The Atomic Energy Commission For written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Nuclear energy categories.
Atomic Energy Research Reports For Sale By The U S Department Of Commerce Office Of Technical Services
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Author : Business and Defense Services Administration
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Atomic Energy Research Reports For Sale By The U S Department Of Commerce Office Of Technical Services written by Business and Defense Services Administration and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Technology Safety And Costs Of Decommissioning Reference Light Water Reactors Following Postulated Accidents Main Report
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Author : E. S. Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Technology Safety And Costs Of Decommissioning Reference Light Water Reactors Following Postulated Accidents Main Report written by E. S. Murphy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Light water reactors categories.