Tell me where the first serious nuclear accident happened?

Question

The answerer who can give me the best account and understanding of what happened gets 10 pts.

Hint: This happened within a few months of the introduction of the first prototype super spy plane that became the SR-71...

The event happened about 16 months before the first flight of said prototype plane.

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Answer 1

I think it was somewhere in Idaho.

Answer 2

You would be talking about the USN Thresher 593, the first nuke sub lost at sea on April 10, 1963, She was the lead ship in her class, could do 20 knots submerged.

When I worked for a Navy valve builder, and we learned how the Thresher was lost at sea on her shakedown cruise.

It was start of the very stringent specs for componets that are put on ships. This gave everyone at work a strong sense of duty and made sure only the best parts went into the valve.

As I said earlier she was on her shakedown cruise. There were a few crewmembers that missed the boat. They may have been sick or were excused for other reasons.

I had the pleasure to meet one of these crewmen and to have an interview with him. He worked for a friend of mine and he agreed to talk with me about the Thresher for a speaking course I was taking.

He told me that when a boat is being built, it's first crew is stationed at the yard and they oversaw all that went into building the ship. This way their had an intimate relationship with the ship and her nuances.

He told me that when a boat goes on a shakedown cruise there are shipyard personnel on board and VIPs. All on board where lost when a pipe in the cooling system failed.

When I asked how he remained? He explained that he had become ill the day before and wasn't recovered the next day. He reported for duty, but the commander sent him ashore and said he'd be on the next cruise. The ship never returned.

He felt he should have died that day too!

My father felt the same way when the boiler exploded on the destroyer he served on in Korea. His best freind was kill when the boilerroom exploded. He had just releaved my dad who had his back injured by the hatchdoor he was stepping thru. He never quite forgave himself.

He was glad to share the story with someone was building parts for the Navy. We could come from a common ground and share stories about shipbuilding and the Navy.

I read in the paper a short time later the man had died, I believe he was ready meet his friends he lost on that terrible day. Now he can join them on their Enternal Patrol.

As the person ran the material testing wet lab for the company, I made sure it was right and nothing less would do.
It wasn't just a matter of pride, but a matter of not letting our submariners down.

The Blackbird design started Feb. 63, first flew December of 64.

Do I get an A teach?

Answer 3

Chernoble in the former USSR. This was pretty horriffic actually. I think it happen in what, early 70's. A complete nuclear meltdown. I remember the USSR wasn't equipt to deal with rescue and clean up and the did it anyway in just everyday work jump suits and many soldeirs died cleaning up the fallout and they did it knowing it would kill them. Some very noble and courageous things happen at that point in time. Freaked everyone out here pretty bad then Three Mile Island nearly went critical and it pretty much ended the Nuclear industry progression. I know also of a Military one out in Nevada I think it was technically the first, it was in the 50s, nothing happen though they shut it all down before anything happen so I don't think it qualifies.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure that it was the accident in Simi Valley, California around 1958 or 1959. I believe one of the reactor core's cooling channels got clogged which resulted in a partial reactor meltdown. The fission products were all contained, but the gas was vented for some reason which resulted in one of the highest releases of radioactive products into the environment in history.

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island occurred well after this one.

Answer 5

I think everyone has forgotten about the three atomic bombs that were dropped off the Spanish coastline in deep waters by a B-52 SACK bomber just before it crashed with mechanical problems. The world stood by in horror waiting for the U.S. to retrieve the bombs, they searched for months before finding them and retrieving them.
The U.S. paid the Spanish government an unannounced sum for the mistake and apologized for it. Russia made a field day of it due to the "cold war" at the time.

This was in the early 50's

Answer 6

There are no longer any "risk-free" nuclear vegetation. all of them are "injuries waiting to ensue", via fact as quickly as cooling of the gasoline rods stops, meltdown starts. it fairly is specific to ensue, faster or later, via fact, radioactivity is unstoppable, mutually as a cooling device demands potential, each and all the time. IOW, nuclear vegetation are no longer fail-risk-free. to make sure this is going to ensue, faster or later, the political employer desires to have the final observe. They understand. sh.t yet they think of that they are able to boss around even the regulations of nature. they're all a gaggle of criminals getting away with homicide. TEPCO, the chief of the Fukushima plant, has a nicely documented historic previous of ignoring protection recomendations from the IAEA. besides, the eastern government does not right police and regulate the potential industry. So, your unhappiness is the end results of your lack of know-how. Like many others, you have been made to have faith that the eastern ought to stroll on water. some distance from it. .

Answer 7

Wasn;t it Three Mile Island? Isn't that why all the little kids around there glow now? Pax - C

Answer 8

Is it some kind of game?!
If you know the answer, why ask then?!
Waste of time...