A Brief History of: The SNAPTRAN Reactor destruction Experiments (Short Documentary)
Channel: Plainly Difficult
Date: 2021-01-02

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Imagine spending loads of time and money building a nuclear reactor only to intentionally destroy it? 

Although a strange thing to do you might think, the experiments were a vital piece of the puzzle of nuclear space travel. 

NASA wanted to be the first to have a nuclear reactor in space as part of its SNAPSHOT program, and this required the SNAPTRAN destructive tests. 

The destructive tests resulted in radioactive contamination of the test lab and the desert!

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Sources:

Set up for snaptran 2 test https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4351114 SNAPTRAN 2
 
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4310287

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.id0444.photos/?sp=47

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc100243/m2/1/high_res_d/metadc100243.pdf 3 test results 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015095164235&view=1up&seq=11

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a146831.pdf ---

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/16359924.pdf ----

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4351114 SNAPTRAN 2

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc865907/m2/1/high_res_d/4048379.pdf SNAPTRAN 3 Description