Former worker John Pace is seen throughout this excellent documentary partially culled from films made at the time of the disaster in order to train other nuclear reactor crews what to do in similar situations. WATCH “Engineering Disasters” on The History Channel‘s Modern Marvels show about the meltdown. SEE 15 galleries of Area IV where most of the nuclear work was done at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. SEE 7 galleries of the reactor’s construction from Atomics International which show the reactor built without a containment dome. SEE eye-witness photographs of the reactor during this critical time including never-before published photos taken by John Pace of desperate days at the crippled core. READ ‘s investigation of Rocketdyne, as the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is oft-times called, begun in 1998 for Los Angeles magazine and the LA Weekly. READ “Very Dirty Laundry” – 2006 article about a state-funded study that found that the reactor meltdown caused cancer in 260 to 1,800 people within a 62-mile radius and released 459 times more of deadly iodine-131 and cesium-137 than the Three Mile Island meltdown did in 1979. Rose is the man who espied a political pamphlet in 1979 that made mention of the meltdown, the discovery of which led to the publicity of the meltdown in 1979 and all the subsequent coverage since. READ “Ghost of a Rose” – ‘s Michael Rose Interview. Pace is the only known person alive today who was at the Sodium Reactor Experiment in 1959 during the meltdown. READ “Meltdown Man” – ‘s John Pace Interview. Runkle Canyon borders the former nuclear area of the huge outdoor lab and is where KB Home hopes to build hundreds of homes but have been stymied since 2006 by a group called the “Radiation Rangers.” READ “Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon – 50 Years After a Santa Susana Nuclear Accident Holds Up Land Development” in the LA Weekly where ‘s Michael Collins takes you in the Atomics International reactor for a front row seat to America’s first and worst nuclear reactor disaster, reveals which way the cancerous fallout fell across Southern California, and exposes how disaster still resonates today. history happened just outside of Los Angeles July 13-26, 1959 and still resonates today. The 50th anniversary of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in U.S.
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