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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3 januar 1961 / Time Line January 3, 1961
Version 3.52. Januar 1961, 4. Januar 1961
01/03/1961
A nuclear reactor exploded at the National Reactor
Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho, killing three military
technicians, and released radioactivity which, in the words
of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission,
was "largely confined" to the reactor building. One technician
was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled
on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken
down six days later. The men were so heavily exposed to
radiation that their hands and heads had to be buried
separately with other radioactive waste, writes This
week in peace history.
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