Santa Susana, California
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Santa Susana is a former railroad town located mostly within the City of Simi Valley. A small portion of the community, outside the Simi Valley city limits to the south of the Ventura County Metrolink
Historic Santa Susana Railroad Station
The Chumash here traded baskets with the neighboring Tongva people of today's Los Angeles County.
The Santa Susana Depot in 2014.
The Lawman TV-series, which was aired in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was partially filmed in Corriganville Movie Ranch.
Sodium Reactor Experiment
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The Sodium Reactor Experiment was a pioneering nuclear power plant built by Atomics International at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley, California. The reactor operated from 1957 to 1
Santa Susana, California
…attack against Krishna and other cult members. It was also here that Charles Manson and the Manson Family partially lived during the late 1960s. The Santa Susana Nuclear Disaster in July 1959 was the worst in American history, and was kept hidden by the United States Atomic Energy Commission for more than twenty years when it…
The Sodium Reactor Experiment facility in 1958
Sodium Reactor Experiment – Refueling head
Gail Fowler of Atomics International displays an L.A. Times headline about the reactor's production of electricity (November 1957)
Sodium Reactor Experiment – Construction of the reactor