3, 1961, when a worker made one wrong move - killing all three men inside. The US Army’s SL-1 nuclear reactor outside of Atomic City, Idaho, blew sky-high on Jan. Legg had also taunted Byrnes, who was married with a 2-year-old son, about him cheating on his wife with a local hooker. Hotheaded Byrnes and prankster Legg, who had been promoted above Byrnes, were rivals at work and had reportedly once gotten into a drunken fistfight at a party. The three men were known to partake in strippers and alcohol in Idaho Falls during their off-hours.
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Located some five miles from Atomic City, in the desolate Lost River desert, the reactor was part of the Army’s plan to establish portable nuclear power at remote bases in the Arctic during the height of the Cold War. 3, 1961, at the US Army’s pioneering SL-1 reactor in Idaho. This single sentence is true: Army Specialists Jack Byrnes, 22, and Richard McKinley, 26, and Navy Seabee Richard Legg, 26, died violent, gruesome deaths on Jan. But the sensational story behind it lives in infamy, even though some experts believe it may have been made up by government officials. The accident never got the same attention as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) or Fukushima (2011).
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