Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident PDF
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Idaho Falls This page intentionally left blank IDAHO FALLS The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident Copyright © William Thomas McKeown, 2003 Published by ECW PRESS 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4E 1E2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW PRESS. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA McKeown, William Idaho Falls : the untold story of America's first nuclear accident / William McKeown. ISBN 1-55022-562-6 1. Nuclear accidents—Idaho—Idaho Falls—History. 2. Idaho Falls (Idaho)—History. I. Title. TKI344.I2M32 2003 363.17'99'o979653 C2OO2-9O5423-O Acquisition editor: Robert Lecker Development editor: Jodi Lewchuk Copy editor: Judy Phillips Design and typesetting: Yolande Martel Production: Emma McKay Printing: Transcontinental Cover design: Pata Macedo Front cover photo: Courtesy of The U.S. Department of Energy All images appear courtesy of The U.S. Department of Energy This book is set in Dante and Blast The publication of Idaho Falls has been generously supported by the Canada Council, by the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation's Ontario Book Initiative, by the Ontario Arts Council, and by the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program. Canada DISTRIBUTION CANADA: Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Avenue, Georgetown, Ontario L7G 5s4 UNITED STATES: Independent Publishers Group, 814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610 EUROPE: Turnaround Publisher Services, Unit 3, Olympia Trading Estate, Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N2Z 6T2 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: Wakefield Press, 1 The Parade West (Box 2266), Kent Town, South Australia 5071 PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA ECW PRESS ecwpress.com To my parents, James V and Bonnie L. McKeown This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments 11 Prologue 13 1 Nuclear Apprenticeship 19 2 Atomic Energy Meets the Cold War 33 3 "There Must Be Something Wrong at SL-1" 61 4 Wayward Atoms 89 5 "Caution: Radioactive Materials" 121 8 Accident Aftermath 149 7 Murder-Suicide? 195 8 Nuclear Legacy 223 Epilogue 251 Appendix 257 Sources 259 This page intentionally left blank
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