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BS: Kodak's reactor

15 May 12 - 04:58 AM (#3351025)
Subject: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Newport Boy

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


15 May 12 - 08:00 AM (#3351069)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: JohnInKansas

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


15 May 12 - 09:08 AM (#3351094)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: beardedbruce

Or the reactor in College Park, MD?


15 May 12 - 04:15 PM (#3351245)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: gnu

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


15 May 12 - 09:34 PM (#3351372)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Rapparee

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


15 May 12 - 09:48 PM (#3351379)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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.


16 May 12 - 04:43 PM (#3351724)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: gnu

Inded, BWL. Unicorns are definitely not qualified.


16 May 12 - 07:46 PM (#3351811)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Janie

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.


16 May 12 - 07:50 PM (#3351814)
Subject: RE: BS: Kodak's reactor
From: Bill D

" refrain from sensationalism "??

And take all the fun out of spinning the news?