Blast at AEC Plant Fatal to Ensign
Ensign John E. McGowan of The Bronx, New York, died several days after he was burned in an explosion at the West Milton Atomic Power Laboratory near Ballston Spa, N. Y., on October 31. Three other Navy men were burned in the explosion which wrecked part of the land prototype of the USS submarine Triton’s nuclear propulsion plant.
The Atomic Energy Commission’s naval reactors operations office said the propulsion plant was not operating at the time and the radioactive portion of the plant was not involved nor was any radioactivity released.
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