We Almost Lost Detroit by John G Fuller

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1976. Ballantine.

A history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial nuclear breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown.

It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantled and the reactor was decommissioned. America's first effort at operating a full-scale breeder had failed.