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Santa Susana Field Laboratory is a couple miles from my house. Sodium reactors were developed there, and several melted down. Every rocket motor from the first, all the way through the Space Shuttle, along with nuclear jet engines for the B36 were also tested there. The site is now a horror show of contamination that has been tied up in court for decades as to who is responsible. The Woolsey Fire started there and burned to within a half mile of our home.

How on Earth are people (you included) allowed to live a couple miles from the site of a nuclear meltdown?!? I can’t imagine the radiation levels are anywhere near acceptable for human life…. I had never heard that there was a reactor meltdown in the United States, let alone several. At any rate, the site in Idaho is perfectly safe, and very welcoming. They have had reactors in constant operation there for over 70 years, with only one issue (steam explosion) in the 60’s that unfortunately killed two people. Perhaps the NaK (sodium-potassium) reactor technology they use is safer and/or more stable than the sodium technology used in CA?