- with rumors still rife over 60 years later that explosion in remote Idaho town was triggered by one man's murderous rage amid LOVE TRIANGLE COMMENT. The accident never got the same attention as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) or Fukushima (2011). But the sensational story behind it lives in infamy, even though some…
An earth-shattering explosion, it happened at the Stationary Low-Power Plant Number 1 (SL-1) in January 1961, and saw all three technicians on staff killed.
IDAHO FALLS – If 26-year-old Navy Seabee Richard Legg and Army Specialists John Byrnes, 22, and Richard McKinley, 27, had known what was going to happen when they arrived in Arco for the first working day of the New Year, they might still be around to talk about it. It was Jan. 3, 1961, and […]