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View from outside, circa 1957. The Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) is located 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Idaho Falls, Idaho.The NRF is a United States Department of Energy-Naval Reactors facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W, S1W and S5G were located.
In 1975, the anti-nuclear book We Almost Lost Detroit, by John G. Fuller was published, referring at one point to the Idaho Falls accident. Prompt Critical is the title of a 2012 short film, viewable on YouTube, written and directed by James Lawrence Sicard, dramatizing the events surrounding the SL-1 accident. [55]
The events are the subject of two books, one published in 2003, Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident, [63] and another, Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History, published in 2009. [62]
The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979
December 21, 1965 (Arco: Butte: This pioneering nuclear reactor was the site of several milestones in the development of nuclear technology, including the first usable electricity (1951), the first self-sustaining chain reaction using plutonium rather than uranium (1963), and the first demonstration of the feasible use of high-temperature liquid metal as a reactor coolant.
B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.
Tourists at ground zero, Trinity site. Atomic tourism or nuclear tourism is a form of tourism in which visitors witness nuclear tests or learn about the Atomic Age by traveling to significant sites in atomic history such as nuclear test reactors, museums with nuclear weapon artifacts, delivery vehicles, sites where atomic weapons were detonated, and nuclear power plants.
TVA's Bob Deacy, left, gives U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, right, a tour of the Clinch River Nuclear Site on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Clinch River Site could bring clean energy future