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Keywords

Nuclear Energy, SL-1, Nuclear Reactor Test Site, NRTS

Abstract

Nuclear Energy has long been a volatile subject in American history and public discourse. Reactor accidents, domestic and foreign, such as the meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and the disaster at the Chernobyl plane in Pripyac, Ukraine have been major milestones in shaping public opinion of nuclear energy in the United Scares. While these events have remained atomic milestones of sores, due to the fact chat nearly everyone has heard of chem, the 1961 explosion of the SL-I reactor at the Nuclear Reactor Test Site in Idaho, the first in the world to inflict casualties, has never held anywhere near che same space in American memory, or had any semblance of the effect ·on opinion and approval racings ocher disasters have had. The SL-I accident did nor have a long term or wide-reaching impact on American memory or public opinion of nuclear power due to the remote location of the NRTS, the military nature of the operation, the nature and limitations of the media coverage SL-I received, and the cultural timing of the event itself

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