Atomic Accidents, page 57
nuclear bomber part 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-kkogj9Ro&
feature=relmfu
nuclear bomber part 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cnFtYuqXX8&
feature=relmfu
SL-1 accident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zT9ARfsT4&feature=
related
SL-1 part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNqPUT-yP0&
feature=related
SL-1 part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCfnurdwPwc&feature=
relmfu
SL-1 part 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZu_s8Cl74&feature=
relmfu
SL-1 part 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWVGEFhxgc&feature=
relmfu
SL-1 part 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZfkmPNiuk&feature=relmfu
SL-1 part 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQV7bx8pWk&feature=
relmfu
SL-1 part 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pAJAIXMeCI&feature=relmfu
SPERT 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIhafVX_6I&feature=related
SPERT 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqg7FEirbK4&feature=related
Chapter 5: Making Everything Else Seem Insignificant in the UK
Arnold, Lorna. Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Goodchild, Peter. Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Jensen, S. E. and Nonbol, E. Description of the Magnox Type of Gas Cooled Reactor (MAGNOX). Roskilde, Denmark: Nordic Nuclear Safety Research, NKS-2, 1999.
Windscale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElotW9oKv1s&feature=relmfu
Chapter 6: In Nuclear Research, Even the Goof-ups are Fascinating
Ashley, R. L., et al. SRE Fuel Element Damage: An Interim Report. Canoga Park, CA: Atomics International, NAA-SR-4488, 1959.
Ashley, R. L., et al. SRE Fuel Element Damage: Final Report. Canoga Park, CA: Atomics International, NAA-SR-4488, 1961.
Babcock, W. State of Technology Study—Pumps: Experience with High Temperature Sodium Pumps in Nuclear Reactor Service and their Application to FFTF. Richland, WA: Battelle Memorial Institute, BNWL-1049, 1969.
Calahan, Jim. Sodium Fast Reactor: Safety #2. Chicago, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, 2008.
Cochran, Thomas B., et al. Fast Breeder Reactor Programs: History and Status. Princeton, NJ: International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2010.
Fillmore, F. L. Analysis of SRE Power Excursion of July 13, 1959. Canoga Park, CA: Atomics International, NAA-SR-5898, 1959.
Fuller, John G. We Almost Lost Detroit. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Maffei, H. P.; Funk, C. W.; and Ballif, J. L. Sodium Removal Disassembly and Examination of the Fermi Secondary Sodium Pump. Amford, WA: Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory, HEDL-TC-133, 1974.
Santa Susana 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHmaEs5cYU&feature=related
Santa Susana 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMadIhVBRpU
Chapter 7: The Atomic Man and Lessons in Fuel Processing
blanked out. Compliance Investigation Report, United Nuclear Corporation Scrap Recovery Facility, Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, License No. SNM-777: Type “A” Case—Criticality Incident. Santa Fe, NM: Division of Compliance Region I, 1964.
NA. Lessons Learned from the JCO Nuclear Criticality Accident in Japan in 1999. Vienna, Austria: IAEA, 2000.
Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Breitenstein, Bryce D. 1976 Hanford Americium Exposure Incident: Medical Management and Chelation Therapy. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press Ltd., Health Physics, Vol. 45, No. 4, Oct 1983.
Brown, W. R. 1976 Hanford Americium Exposure Incident: Psychological Aspects. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press Ltd., Health Physics, Vol. 45, No. 4, Oct 1983.
McLaughlin, Thomas P., Monahan, Shean P., Pruvost, Norman L., Frolov, Vladimir V., Ryanzanov, Boris G., and Sviridov, Victor I. LA-13638: A Review of Criticality Acidents. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2000.
McMurray, B. J. 1976 Hanford Americium Exposure Incident: Accident Description. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press Ltd., Health Physics, Vol. 45, No. 4, Oct 1983.
Medvedev, Zhores A. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.
Soran, Diane M. and Stillman, Danny B. An Analysis of the Alleged Kyshtym Disaster. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-9217-MS, 1982.
Thompson, Roy C. 1976 Hanford Americium Exposure Incident: Overview and Perspective. Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press Ltd., Health Physics, Vol. 45, No. 4, Oct 1983.
Chapter 8: The Military Almost Never Lost a Nuclear Weapon
blanked out. Project Crested Ice: The Thule Nuclear Accident (U), Volume I, SAC Historical Study #113. Headquarters Strategic Air Command: History & Research Division, 1979.
Dobson, Joel. The Goldsboro Broken Arrow: The Story of the 1961 B-52 Crash, the Men, the Bombs, the Aftermath. Lexington, KY: Lulu.com, 2011.
Hunziker, Maj Gen Richard O., et al. Project Crested Ice. Kirtland AFB, NM: USAF Nuclear Safety, 1970.
Maggelet, Michael H. and Oskins, James C. Broken Arrow: The Declassified History of U. S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents. Lexington, KY: Lulu.com, 2007.
Maggelet, Michael H. and Oskins, James C. Broken Arrow Volume II: A Disclosure of Significant U. S., Soviet, and British Nuclear Weapon Incidents and Accidents, 1945-2008. Lexington, KY: Lulu.com, 2010.
Chapter 9: The China Syndrome Plays in Harrisburg and Pripyat
Gray, Mike and Rosen, Ira. The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
Medvedev, Grigori. The Truth About Chernobyl: An Exciting Minute-by-Minute Account by a Leading Soviet Nuclear Physicist of the World’s Largest Nuclear Disaster and Coverup. New York: Basic Books, 1989.
Murphy, G. A. and Cletcher, J. W. II. Operating Experience Review of Failures of Power Operated Relief Valves and Block Valves in Nuclear Power Plants. Oak Ridge, TN: ORNL, NUREG/CR-4692, 1987.
Paatero, Jussi, et al. Chernobyl: Observations in Finland and Sweden. Research Triangle Park, NC: RTI Press Book, 2011.
Pryor, Andrew J. The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Fire. Boston, MA: Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Technology Report 77-2, 1977.
Walker, J. Samuel. Three Mile Island: a Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
Chapter 10: Tragedy at Fukushima Daiichi
NA. Lessons Learned from the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Revision 0. Atlanta, GA: INPO, 2012.
NA. Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Revision 0. Atlanta, GA: INPO, INPO 11-005, 2011.
NA. Reactor Concepts Manual: Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Systems. Chattanooga, TN: USNRC Technical Training Center.
NA. BWR/6: General Description of a Boiling Water Reactor. San Jose, CA: General Electric Nuclear Energy.
Aslam, M.; Godden, W. G.; and Scalise, D. T. Sloshing of Water in Torus Pressure-Suppression Pool of Boiling Water Reactors Under Earthquake Ground Motions. Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, LBL-7984, 1978.
Ford, Daniel. The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Grimes, C. I. Safety Evaluation Report: Mark I Containment Long-Term Program, Resolution of Generic Technical Activity A-7. Washington, DC: USNRC, 1980.
Holman, G. S., McCauley, E. W., and Lu, S. C. Three-Dimensional Linear Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction Effects in the Mark I BWR Pressure Suppression Torus. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, UCRL-82217, 1980.
Martin, R. W. and McCauley, E. W. The Effects of Torus Wall Flexibility on Forces in the Mark I Boiling Water Reactor Pressure Suppression System—Part I. Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, UCRL-52506, 1978.
Meng, Steve. The Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Atlanta, GA: INPO, 2012.
Mohrbach, Dr.-Ing. Ludger. Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011 and Consequences for Fukushima and Other Nuclear Power Plants. Essen, Germany: VGB PowerTech, 2011.
Nelson, Larry. Boiling Water Reactor Basics. San Ramon, CA: GE Global Research, 2008.
Stevens, Gary L. NUREG-0651—Torus (Suppression Chamber) Portion of the Mark I Containment. NRC/RES/DE/CIB, 2011.
West, J. W., et al. EBWR: The Experimental Boiling Water Reactor. Chicago: Argonne National Laboratory, 1957.
Chapter 11: Caught in the Rickover Trap
Bunker, Merle E. Early Reactors. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Science Laboratory, 1983.
Harper, Johnny R. and Garde, Raymond. Decommissioning the Los Alamos Molten Plutonium Reactor Experiment (LAMPRE I). Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-9052-MS, 1981.
Harvey, David W., et al. Historical Context of the Omega Reactor Facility, Technical Area 2: Historic Building Report No. 234. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2004.
Kiehn, R.M. LAMPRE: A Molten Plutonium Fueled Reactor Concept. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Science Laboratory, LA-2112, 1957.
Mahaffey, James A. E. I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Response Data Systems Maintenance Manual, Units 1 and 2. Atlanta, GA: GTRI, 1986.
Mahaffey, James A. The Future of Nuclear Power. New York: Facts On File, 2012.
Index
A
Abel, Rudolf, 266
Aberdeen Proving Ground, 68
Adventures of Superman, The, 156-158
aircraft accidents, 197-314
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP), 122, 124
Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE), 413-415
aircraft safety measures, 286-324
Akimov, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 362-365, 369
alpha particles, 10, 13, 19
American Nuclear Society, 222
americium contamination, 228-233
Anglo-Canadian nuclear efforts, 85-90
Argonne National Laboratory, 33, 91, 114-122, 129-136
Argonne West, 114-115, 122
Arzamas incident, 69-71
atomic bomb development, 35-36
atomic bomb explosion
energy from, 40-43
heat from, 41-43
mechanics of, 40-43, 87, 92
testing, 63-66
Atomic Energy Act, 159
Atomic Energy Authority, 158, 169, 180
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 81, 113, 117-123, 129-130, 192, 415
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, 264
Atomic Man incident, 231, 234, 344
Automated In-Flight Insertion (AIFI) mechanism, 289-290
B
Bailey, Dr. William John Aloysius, 16-18, 20-23, 33, 79
Bakerville, Charles, 26
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), 316, 323
Banting, Frederick, 19
Barnes, DeWitt, xiv
Baum, L. Frank, 1
Becquerel, Henri, 7
Bergstrom, Louis, xiv
beryllium, 54, 63-64
Bethe, Hans, 50
Bikini Atoll, 63, 76, 80, 159, 170, 295
Blackoak Ridge, 44-45. See also Oak Ridge facilities
Bock’s Car, 43
boiler explosion, xii-xvi, xviii
bomber accidents, 293-324
bombing campaigns, 35-45, 37, 39
BORAX-I, 131-134, 144-145
BORAX-II, 131, 133
BORAX-III, 133
BORAX-IV, 133
BORAX-V, 133
Bothe, Walther, 52
Boyceyer, Bill, 1-3, 11, 13
Breitenstein, Dr. Bryce D., 235
Bridenbaugh, Dale G., 382
Bridge on the River Kwai, The, 188
British accidents, 173-188
British Blue Peacock weapon, 188
British nuclear reactor testing, 153-188
“Broken Arrow” accidents, 287-288, 304
Brouma, Andre G., 134
Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant, 333-336
Bryukhanov, Viktor Petrovich, 361
Burst Cartridge Detection Gear (BCDG), 168
Byers, Eben McBurney, 21-25, 30, 33, 79
Byrnes, Jack, 139-142
C
Cain, Charles, xii
Calder Hall reactors, 181-185
Camp Century, Greenland, 134-143
Canadian accidents, 94-111
Carter, James Earl, 104, 419, 420
Castle Bravo, 76-81
Castle Cue, 79
Cavendish Laboratory, 84
Chalk River accident, 95-111
Chalk River Laboratory, 83, 90, 94-111, 166
Chapelcross reactors, 181-185
chelation therapy, 232-235
Chelyabinsk incident, 71, 280-284
Chem Plant, 147-152
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, 357-375
Chernobyl RBMK nuclear reactor, viii, 102, 357-369, 359, 370, 371-372
“China Syndrome,” 400
China Syndrome, The, 343, 382
Church, Henry, 236
Church, Marcus, 237
Cisler, Walker Lee, 206-207, 216-218
Clancy, Tom, 286
Cleanup Project, 152
Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project, 218-219, 419-420, 423
Clinton Engineering Works, 45, 51, 62. See also Oak Ridge facilities
Cockcroft, Dr. John Douglas, 89-90, 165-167
“Cockcroft’s follies,” 166, 178
Connolly, “Head-On” Joe, xv-xvi
Cosmic Voice, 278
“credible accident” criterion, 273
Crested Ice, 322-323
criticality accident explanation, 51-52, 59. See also specific plants
criticality accidents review, 93, 258, 271
criticality experiment, 59-60, 64, 69
Crush, William “Bill,” ix, xi-xv, 131
Curie, Iréne Joliot, 33
Curie, Marie, 7-8, 10, 18, 20, 32-33
Curie, Pierre, 7-8, 10, 18
D
Daghlian, Haroutune “Harry” Krikor, Jr., 57-61, 63
Daigo Fukuryu Maru, 80-82
Dally, Charles M., 8-9
D’Amario, Alfred J., 317-321
D’Aquino, Iva Toguri, 39
Darnall, Ernest, xiv
Darzens, Auguste George, 196
Davey, H. Gethin, 175-176
Davis-Besse Plant, 337-341
de Hoffman, Frederic, 145
Deane, J. C., xii
Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), 286
Dempsey, John, 1-3, 13
Dentuna, 66
Department of Energy, 152, 252, 425
Department of Energy Explosive Safety Manual, 252
Derivan, Mike, 337-339
deuterium, 47, 52-54, 76-79, 85-88
“DEW Line,” 134
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 387, 391
Diesel, Rudolph, 112
Direct Contact Reactor (DCR), 413-415, 422
Distant Early Warning System, 134
Döpel, Klara, 52
Döpel, Robert, 52-55
Dougherty, Terry, 348-349
Douglas, Michael, 343
Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR), 226
“Dr. Freezelove,” 322
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 145, 322
Duke, Derek, 303
Dyatlov, Anatoly Stepanovich, 361-365, 369
Dyson, Dr. Freeman, 145
E
E. I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, 325-326, 404
Early Warning Systems, 134, 316
earthquake damage, 391-401, 421
earthquake predictions, 389-390
earthquake protection, 387, 391
East Urals Radioactive Trace (EURT), 284-285
Eden, Anthony, 171
Edison, Thomas, 4, 8
Effects of Nuclear Weapons, The, 41
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 74-75, 123, 156, 265-266
Electrical Review, 6
electrodes, 4-6
Elms, Joan, 296
Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS), 327-341
Eminger, Verle “Lefty,” 242-243
Emlet, Logan, 199
Enewetak Atoll, 76, 170
Engineer Reactors Group, 134, 425
Enola Gay, 36, 38
Evans, Robley D., 33
Experimental Breeder Reactor One (EBR-1), 114-122, 147, 196
F
Fabian, Blain, 350
Failla, Dr. Gioacchino, 169
Fair, D. R. R., 153
Faro incident, 307, 311, 314, 324
fast breeder reactor, 116-118, 192, 208-210, 220-226, 273, 410, 420
Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR), 224
“Fat Man” nuclear weapon, 35, 40-43, 42, 55-56, 63, 240, 250, 323
Fermi, Dr. Enrico, 53, 62-63, 114, 207, 216
Fermi 1 plant, 207-210, 211, 213-219, 224
Fermi 2 plant, 218
Feynman, Richard, 50-51, 74
Field, Paul “Spider Fuzz,” 325
fireballs, 41-43, 76-80, 147, 236, 288, 396
fission chambers, 57
Flinn, Frederick B., 23
fluorescent lamp, 8, 9
fluoroscope, 9
Fomin, Nikolai Maksimovich, 361
Fonda, Jane, 343, 356, 382
Forbidden Planet, 157
Ford, Gerald, 39
Francis, Anne, 157
Frederick, Ed, 346, 348
Frisch, Otto, 57
Fryer, Grace, 29
Fuchs, Klaus, 158
