New Year, new poll, and a little-known nuclear accident
Today is also the 60th anniversary of a nuclear accident that is rarely noted, yet it was the only reactor accident in the USA that directly caused fatalities. (There had been earlier accidents at the Los Alamos laboratories, including ones with fatalities as a result of lethal radiation doses, as well as accidents at other reactors where radiation was released, but without killing anybody outright).
The incident in question happened on 3 January 1961 at a reactor testing station in
3 January 2021
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