This single sentence is true: Army Specialists Jack Byrnes, 22, and Richard ... the night of the disaster. The AEC guys were covering their asses. They didn’t want their nuclear program impugned.

But rumors surrounding the incident still swirl today, with some speculating the disaster ... nuclear energy. SL-1 had opened in May 1961, with Army Specialists Jack Byrnes, 22, and Richard ...

and Richard McKinley, who died in this country's only fatal nuclear accident—a total fuel meltdown that occurred when an atomic reactor went suddenly and disastrously critical. The accident ...

While New Mexico may get all the attention for its role in the Manhattan Project, Idaho arguably could be called the state with the most significant nuclear ... and Richard McKinley, 27, arrived ...