BS: Kodak's reactor

Subject: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Newport Boy
Date: 15 May 12 - 04:58 AM

Interesting news report
here

I particularly liked "According to the company, no employees were ever in contact with the reactor. Apparently, it was operated by atomic fairies and unicorns."

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 15 May 12 - 08:00 AM

Not a particularly mystical occurance, nor is the "secrecy" about it really suspicious as the Fed has had a real "attitude" about any public knowledge of experimental uses of radiation materials and/or methods for decades.

How many people knew about the Brookhaven lab that built the first bombs? (And have you looked at where that lab was located?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 May 12 - 09:08 AM

Or the reactor in College Park, MD?

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: gnu
Date: 15 May 12 - 04:15 PM

There'd be a lot of redeye when the flash on THAT camera went off!

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 12 - 09:34 PM

Or the pile at Stagg Field? Or the ones at many universities?

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 May 12 - 09:48 PM

I doubt a "journalist" who would include a smart-assed line like "Apparently, it was operated by atomic fairies and unicorns," is an impartial source of unbiased news.

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: gnu
Date: 16 May 12 - 04:43 PM

Inded, BWL. Unicorns are definitely not qualified.

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Janie
Date: 16 May 12 - 07:46 PM

For the record, Kodak did not have a nuclear reactor. They did have a very small amount of highly enriched uranium. They had built a device that emitted radiation and they were using the radiation emissions in projects and experiments. The amount of enriched uranium they possessed was not sufficient to sustain a nuclear reaction even if they had wanted to.

While there are legitimate concerns in this day and age about the security of what are apparently many small amounts of weapons grade uranium legally and commercially owned by various business enterprises, let us refrain from sensationalism and keep our facts straight.

Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Bill D
Date: 16 May 12 - 07:50 PM

" refrain from sensationalism "??

And take all the fun out of spinning the news?