Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Nuclear Reactor PWR Simulator by the University of Manchester

Nuclear Engineer Reacts to PWR Reactor Simulator

On January 3, 1961, at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, a routine maintenance procedure turned into the deadliest nuclear accident in U.S. history. Three young military technicians - John Byrnes (22), Richard Legg (26), and Richard McKinley (27) were reassembling the SL-1 experimental reactor after a holiday shutdown. The horror began when Byrnes attempted to manually lift the central control rod to reconnect it to its drive mechanism. The rod, which had a history of

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