I wish them luck. Several decades ago the Army tried to develop small nuclear energy plants to supply its remote bases. That experiment didn’t work out well. It was designed to be operated by three specialists and was being tested at the Idaho National Laboratory (formerly known as INEL, the NRTS, etc.) which is located in a desert area where experimental plants could be widely isolated to minimize danger.
One late night, the central administration site received an alarm from the Army reactor. It responded and everything from the outside looked quiet and normal. Men went inside the site which seemed to be deserted but their radiation monitors pegged out. The search crew thought it was a malfunction of the monitor so they proceeded to the reactor room. Three highly radiated and highly dead operators were there (although it took awhile to find the third member who had been impaled by a reactor fuel rod and stuck to the ceiling of the large dome of the reactor room. Cleanup involved climbing a ladder/stairs outside to the top of the dome, descending the stairs to the reactor room floor, ascending the stairs again and down, all of which had to be accomplished in ten minutes to avoid radiation poisoning. They could make the trip only once. Even so, every rescuer was pensioned because they exceeded their lifetime exposure to radiation.
The blame was attributed to a feud between two of the operators resulting in a murder suicide. The Army was put out of the reactor business. The site was sealed in concrete and stories abound about what was done to the bodies of the victims. There’s at least one youTube video about the incident but my information came from talking with people at the INEL who had been there and involved in the cleanup.
Sounds like a gay love triangle. I lived next door to a gay couple. They were quiet and peaceful until another gay moved in next door on the other side. Then all hell broke loose.............
“I wish them luck. Several decades ago the Army tried to develop small nuclear energy plants to supply its remote bases. That experiment didn’t work out well.”
BWXT is providing a micro reactor to Idaho National Lab via Project Pele.
So many errors in your post ...
“The search crew thought it was a malfunction of the monitor so they proceeded to the reactor room.”
Nope. They retreated and got another monitor.
“Three highly radiated and highly dead operators were there ...”
One was still alive, barely.
” ceiling of the large dome”
No dome.
“The blame was attributed to a feud between two of the operators resulting in a murder suicide. “
This was deemed unlikely.
“The site was sealed in concrete and stories abound about what was done to the bodies of the victims.”
Vital components were removed for analysis and much were buried nearby.
Bodies were buried in a National Cemetary.