On January 3, 1961, a nuclear meltdown at Stationary Low-Power Plant Number 1 (SL-1) nea...  ...Richard McKinley. They are, to this day, the only nuclear explosion fatalities on U.S. soil. The design of...  ...he central rod further would be enough to cause a meltdown -and that'...

In 1951, the U.S. government built the country's f...  ...r reactor, an experiment to show the country that nuclear power could be used for a peaceful purpose- gener...  ...lant flow "in the most stable way." That led to a meltdown of the nuclear core, but the effects were not...