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

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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