America's First Nuclear Disaster - The SL1 Incident

The in-depth story of the SL-1 Nuclear Reactor Explosion Disaster. Inside "Fire Station Number 1" at the Army’s National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, United States, the siren sounds at 9:01 pm on January 3, 1961. A false alarm had been raised twice before in the furnace room of the support building - which houses the stationary low-power nuclear reactor. Each alarm calls for attention in a place like this, where nuclear research is conducted... Subscribe for more fascinating disaster documentaries:    / @darkrecordsdocs   Tragic history playlist:    • Disaster Documentaries   Suggest a topic for my next video: https://bit.ly/DarkHistoryTopics We reveal the world's darkest and greatest disasters, all based on true stories. This disaster documentary is inspired by the fantastic "Fascinating Horror".