I’d never heard of this US Army nuclear reactor meltdown. Three workers killed, one pinned to the ceiling of the reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 https://twitter.com/quickfoundnet/status/1142675594921959424 …
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omg some of the body parts (hands?) were so radioactive they had to be severed and buried as radioactive waste
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they had a place to take the damaged reactor core because the Aircraft Nuclear Project had been cancelled
http://www.environmental-defense-institute.org/publications/SL-1Article%20Rev5.pdf …pic.twitter.com/e7aKcraiNG
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So the theory is that the rod got stuck, the operator tried to jerk it loose, and accidentally moved it up high enough for prompt criticality?
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