[lbo-talk] A way of introducing VA for all

[Chuck Grimes]

Hey that was nice. There are all kinds of things about LA history that
I never come across. For example during the late fifties and early sixities
they built a sodium cooled reactor out in Simi Valley near where Rocketdyn
used to test their Atlas power stages. In the early evening you could see 
the
western mountain range light up and hear a distant roar of the rocket 
engines.
Space travel was only a few decades away.

This reactor was a Popular Mechanics model that was supposed to power
Simi with electricity, when that exurb was being developed with miles of 
tracks, apartments, and shopping centers. It was like sprawl on 
steroids.Tackie LA modern sci fi was being made into reality. I was reading, 
that after a few years they shut the reactor down after some accident. At a 
bet it is still there quietly waiting for the big one...

CG