233: America's First Nuclear Disaster: SL1

Did a love triangle cause America's first nuclear disaster? You'll just have to watch and find out...

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References & Further Reading
SL-1
https://nypost.com/2021/10/16/was-worlds-first-fatal-nuclear-explosion-sparked-by-a-love-triangle/
http://environmental-defense-institute.org/publications/SL-1Accident.pdf
https://sma.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/safety-messages/safetymessage-2007-09-01-sl1nuclearreactorexplosion-vits.pdf?sfvrsn=8ea91ef8_4
https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/PRR/163645.pdf
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4828615
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/nuclear-poison-or-neutron-poison.html

Microreactors
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-microreactor
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2998460/dod-to-build-project-pele-mobile-microreactor-and-perform-demonstration-at-idah/
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/small-nuclear-power-reactors.aspx