Editing SL-1 (section)

==Movies and books==
[[File:SL-1 The Accident Phases I and II Animated.gif|thumb|left|Animation of the film produced by the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]], available from [[The Internet Archive]].]]

The U.S. government produced a film about the accident for internal use in the 1960s. The video was subsequently released and can be viewed at [[The Internet Archive]]<ref name="internetarchive">{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.A13886VNB1|title=SL-1 The Accident: Phases I and II}}</ref> and [[YouTube]]. ''SL-1'' is the title of a 1983 movie, written and directed by Diane Orr and C. Larry Roberts, about the nuclear reactor explosion.<ref name="maslin">{{cite news |last=Maslin|first=Janet|title=Sl-1 (1983): Looking at Perils of Toxicity|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C00E2D9143AF932A15750C0A962948260|access-date=July 30, 2010|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 21, 1984}}</ref> Interviews with scientists, archival film, and contemporary footage, as well as slow-motion sequences, are used in the film.<ref>{{IMDb title|0323857}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/158359/Sl-1/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508232300/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/158359/Sl-1/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-05-08|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Eleanor Mannikka|date=2011|title=Movie Reviews}}</ref> The events of the accident are also the subject of one book: ''Idaho Falls: The untold story of America's first nuclear accident'' (2003)<ref name=McKeown/> and 2 chapters in ''Proving the Principle – A History of The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 1949–1999'' (2000).<ref>{{cite book
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In 1975, the anti-nuclear book ''[[We Almost Lost Detroit]]'', by [[John G. Fuller]] was published, referring at one point to the Idaho Falls accident. ''Prompt Critical'' is the title of a 2012 short film, viewable on [[YouTube]], written and directed by James Lawrence Sicard, dramatizing the events surrounding the SL-1 accident.<ref>{{YouTube|tPfXBqXJ_o4|Prompt Critical}} by James Lawrence Sicard.</ref> A documentary about the accident was shown on the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]].<ref>{{YouTube|OurgpWnRufE|SL-1 Nuclear Accident}} [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]</ref>

[[File:Sl-1-ineel81-3966.jpg|thumb|A safety poster designed for engineering offices showing the mangled SL-1 reactor core.<ref>{{cite book | title = Atomic Awakening | last = Mahaffey | first = James | isbn = 978-1605982038 | publisher = Pegasus Books | year = 2010}}</ref>]] Another author, Todd Tucker, studied the accident and published a book detailing the historical aspects of nuclear reactor programs of the U.S. military branches. Tucker used the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] to obtain reports, including autopsies of the victims, writing in detail how each person died and how parts of their bodies were severed, analyzed, and buried as [[radioactive waste]].<ref name="tucker">{{cite book |last=Tucker |first=Todd |url=https://archive.org/details/atomicamericahow00todd |title=Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History |publisher=Free Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4165-4433-3 |location=New York |url-access=registration}} See summary: [http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008013842-s.html]</ref> The autopsies were performed by the same pathologist known for his work following the [[Cecil Kelley criticality accident]]. Tucker explains the reasoning behind the autopsies and the severing of victims' body parts, one of which gave off 1,500 R/hour on contact. Because the SL-1 accident killed all three of the military operators on site, Tucker calls it "the deadliest nuclear reactor incident in U.S. history."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041701368.html|title=Book Reviews: 'The Day We Lost the H-Bomb' – 'Atomic America'; by Barbara Moran – by Todd Tucker|first=Seth|last=Shulman|date=19 April 2009|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>