VENTURA COUNTY, CA, UNITED STATES: Space rocket stands. WELCOME to what remains of a once top-secret NASA lab that was home to America’s first and worst nuclear disaster. Pictures show the enormous 2,668-acre station which would have once stood proud in all its glory, now rusted by time in a contaminated landscape. Widely held to have contributed enormously to America’s space programmes, despite decades of abandonment in what looks like a nuclear wasteland, the colossal structure still towers over the wilderness. In 1959 one of the reactors had a partial meltdown and disastrous amounts of rad
VENTURA COUNTY, CA, UNITED STATES: Space rocket stands. WELCOME to what remains of a once top-secret NASA lab that was home to America’s first and worst nuclear disaster. Pictures show the enormous 2,668-acre station which would have once stood proud in all its glory, now rusted by time in a contaminated landscape. Widely held to have contributed enormously to America’s space programmes, despite decades of abandonment in what looks like a nuclear wasteland, the colossal structure still towers over the wilderness. In 1959 one of the reactors had a partial meltdown and disastrous amounts of radiation was released into the atmosphere. The exact amount of radiation leaked is unknown, however it was enough to make this the worst nuclear disaster in US history. Web developer Scott Haefner (41) from San Francisco, California, made an eight-hundred mile roundtrip in his Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck to South California where the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) was located. To avoid being seen by the twenty-four surveillance and security patrol, Scott hiked miles up and over a rocky terrain mountain to reach this off-limits site.
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