John Pace

former worker, Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Trainee worker at the Sodium Reactor Experiment, at the time of its 1959 meltdown

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LA's Own Nuclear Meltdown Revisited

It's been 50 years since America's first nuclear meltdown in the Santa Susana Mountains, between the San Fernando and Simi Valleys.

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