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Marking the 50th anniversary of the first US nuclear meltdown

1959 Atomic meltdown: A headline on an article in Monday's Section A about the first atomic meltdown in the U.S. said the reactor was in Chatsworth. The reactor was in Ventura County in the Santa Susana Mountains overlooking Los Angeles County, including Chatsworth. —


A reactor at the Atomics Global field laboratory in the Santa Susana Mountains had trained a power surge the night before and spewed radioactive gases into the feeling.

"They were terrified that some of the gas had blown over their own San Fernando Valley homes," recalled Stride, who was 20 at the time. "My job was to keep radiation out of the control room."

Stride set to work sealing doors and windows with clear packing band and scrubbing the walls with sanitary napkins soaked

Source: Los Angeles Times

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