[HN Gopher] Santa Susana Field Laboratory
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       Santa Susana Field Laboratory
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-04-06 12:24 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
        
       | icegreentea2 wrote:
       | Video about a tri-propellant engine tested at SSFL (it is quite
       | long, but I enjoyed it, it was released ~month ago)
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-0Xw6kkrc
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       | tl;dr - it's a lithium, hydrogen, fluoride rocket.
       | 
       | Skip 31:00 (https://youtu.be/KX-0Xw6kkrc?t=1860) for a treatment
       | on the bonkers environmental impact and safety things going on at
       | SSFL. The equivalent wiki article section says uh... "Workers
       | would dispose of barrels filled with radioactive sodium by
       | dumping them in a pond and then shooting the barrels with rifles
       | so that they would explode and release their contents into the
       | air".
        
       | temp0826 wrote:
       | I worked at Rocketdyne in the late 2000's (not a rocket
       | scientist, just a junior Unix tech). Even then the company was
       | just a shell of its former glory. But there was a certain pride
       | in the air and a ton of rich history all over the place. I loved
       | when I had to go fix workstations at the Canoga Park facility and
       | would get lost on purpose just to check it out. It was a pretty
       | dreadful place to work overall, though.
        
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