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To: RadioAstronomer
Was the SL-1 at Hanford or at the former National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho (now the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory?)

NRTS had a very interesting incident in which a jealous lover/husband deliberately fried himself along with his lover and rival at one of its reactors. Somewhere in my dusty files I have a newspaper account of it.

50 posted on 09/05/2004 12:38:20 PM PDT by Bernard Marx (Is Karl Marx's grave a Communist plot?)
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To: Bernard Marx

"NRTS had a very interesting incident in which a jealous lover/husband deliberately fried himself along with his lover and rival at one of its reactors. Somewhere in my dusty files I have a newspaper account of it."

Wasn't that the original speculation about the SL-1 meltdown? I read that the actual cause was that the core would melt down if even one rod was pulled too far out, and the technician yanked on one that was stuck. Then the water in the reactor flashed into steam, the vessel popped up into the ceiling, and pinned the hapless tech to the roof. Two others in the facility died of radiation overdose.


60 posted on 02/21/2006 10:25:32 AM PST by ko_kyi
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