Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL)
USA /
California /
Simi Valley /
Woolsey Canyon Road
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Simi Valley
World / United States / California
pollution, nuclear testing area
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL-Rocketdyne) is a once prolific rocket and nuclear reactor test facility located 30 miles (48 km) north of downtown Los Angeles, California. SSFL continues to operate today, serving as a research facility for The Boeing Company. The first commercial nuclear-power producing reactor (the Sodium Reactor Experiment) inside the United States was built at SSFL. The SRE came online in April of 1957, and began feeding electricity to the grid on July 12, 1957. The reactor powered over 1,100 homes in the Moorpark area of California for a short period of time. SSFL, however, also became home to the first meltdown of a power-producing reactor in the United States on July 13, 1959. Today, all nuclear research and most rocket testing has been halted.
Various research initiatives, such as the development of the Saturn rockets that powered the Apollo missions, the rockets that powered the vast ballistic missile arsenal of the United States during the Cold War years, and even a program to develop nuclear reactors for use in outer space were undertaken at the facility.
Various research initiatives, such as the development of the Saturn rockets that powered the Apollo missions, the rockets that powered the vast ballistic missile arsenal of the United States during the Cold War years, and even a program to develop nuclear reactors for use in outer space were undertaken at the facility.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°13'39"N 118°41'45"W
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- Area 27 367 km
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- Area 7 400 km
- Yucca Flat 404 km
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- Johnston Atoll 5403 km
- Former French nuclear testing sites of Reggane 10670 km
- SSFL - Test AREA TWO 0.6 km
- SSFL-South Buffer Zone 0.8 km
- SSFL - Test AREA ONE 1.6 km
- Bell Canyon, California 2.5 km
- Runkle Canyon 3.4 km
- Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve 4.7 km
- West Hills 5.9 km
- Cheeseboro and Palo Commado Canyon 7.4 km
- Mountain View Estates 7.6 km
- Woodland Hills 10 km
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