America's Forgotten Atomic Town

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  @IMPERIALYT · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @DanTe.-Evo · 2 years ago

  Never thought I&apos;d hear &quot;ASS-KISSING&quot; &nbsp;and &quot;VERY SHIT&quot; spoken seriously in a Imprial video.

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  @No_Feelings · 2 years ago

  I love how you really put into perspective the sheer horror of the situation those firefighters walked into. Many people focus on the atftermath, or the reactor itself, but not the men who are the only ones who know what truly happened.

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  @epeterd · 2 years ago

  I find the accident explanation to be far more plausible than the &quot;I&apos;m gonna kill us all&quot; explanation. Just because they were assholes doesn&apos;t mean they&apos;d be crazy enough to set off a nuclear accident.

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  @eugenenalpin6058 · 2 years ago

  Wow. I&apos;ve heard the tale of SL-1 many times before, but noone else has touched upon the politics and competition that took place before the disaster. Amazing job mate!<br><br>P.S. The reason why SL-1 was designed to be controlled by only one control rod is because it was an experiment by the US military into field-deployable nuclear power source, so they were trying to make it as cheap and simple as possible, which is certainly in-character for any military

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  @kevting4512 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Speaking of Atomic Town, I highly recommend &apos;Plutopia&apos; by Kate Brown. A comparative study on two atomic cities: Richland, WA and Ozerk, Russia; both the world&apos;s first cities to exclusively produced plutonium. Yet the development and housing of the inhabitant are different based on &apos;permanent housing&apos; and &apos;temporary workers&apos; despite sharing equal access to the comfort of consumer goods. Its a fascinating look at both Cold War adversaries approach to their vision of the ideal community while concealing the truth of its purpose.

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  @weirdgurl288 · 2 years ago

  Fun fact Idaho falls has a garden dedicated to it&apos;s sister city, Tokai Mura in Japan, Tokai Mura is known as the nuclear capital of Japan, and the most irradiated human in history Hisashi Ouchi.

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  @nathangoshawk · 2 years ago (edited)

  This story sounds like the screenplay of a 1950&apos;s movie (black and white of course). Parties, beautiful women, personal animosity, unstable characters and some poor bugger pinned to the ceiling! It&apos;s amazing how cavalier the attitude was to safety back then, even in the development of peaceful applications.

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  @matthewgaines10 · 2 years ago

  The social issues of the operators were played up to distract from the fact that the SL-1 design and operations were substandard. &nbsp;They wanted to deflect blame on the operators instead of the design of the reactor. &nbsp;The reactor design was flawed which resulted in flawed operational methods. &nbsp;There, 100% of the blame resides when one uses a root cause failure analysis approach.

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  @Congp3 · 2 years ago

  It’s a real shame you don’t get more recognition for your work on these videos. I would say your up there with Lemmino in the quality of your videos.

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  @fantasticbrit3515 · 2 years ago

  As an kid living just ten miles from Idaho Falls, I&apos;m honestly surprised I&apos;ve never heard this story as much of my family works at the site. Very good work!

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  @Interweblurker · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;John the control rod is stuck&quot;<br>&quot;Thats what she said&quot;<br>&quot;Thats not funny help me get it out-&quot;<br><b>MELTDOWN</b>

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