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So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:51 pm
by Dux
Corporate America is a place of many layers.
Though fanciful movies made by drug-addled Hollywood directors sometimes suggest that corporations are behind wars, most believe that CEOs are just too harassed to find the time for that sort of action.
And yet, this morning Gizmodo has turned my head toward the explosive reporting of The Democrat and Chronicle, the local newspaper of the Rochester, N.Y., area -- home to Kodak.
This paper reveals that between 1978 and 2006, Kodak had a nuclear reactor. No, not a picture of one. A real one -- albeit a small one intended for research -- housed in its basement.
Surely, you might think that there's some exaggeration here. And yet it seems that this nuclear reactor contained three-and-a-half pounds of enriched uranium. Highly enriched uranium, indeed, which some might describe as "weapons-grade."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57433 ... -basement/
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:38 pm
by Fat Cat
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:48 pm
by DrDonkeyLove
Sounds like it was as useful as their film monopoly.
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:22 pm
by Schlegel
A number of universities had similar reactors around for research or nuclear engineering school purposes. Mountain out of molehill.
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:30 am
by Batboy2/75
Chump change, inquiring minds want to know what is inside the corporate lair of the Kellogg's Greek Rice Krispey treat division?
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:45 am
by Pinky
Schlegel wrote:A number of universities had similar reactors around for research or nuclear engineering school purposes. Mountain out of molehill.
If it's OK for the south side of Chicago, it's OK for Rochester.
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:01 am
by The Crawdaddy
Schlegel wrote:A number of universities had similar reactors around for research or nuclear engineering school purposes. Mountain out of molehill.
Some still do...
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:18 am
by Bobby
Better check that there rae no iranians working at the universities.Otherwise:TOTALWAR on them!
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:22 pm
by Turdacious
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:27 pm
by Jonny Canuck
we need to bomb the fuck out of all of them.
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:41 pm
by Holeyfraggaroley
The U of MN had a particle accelerator that was used to design atomic weapons. It was installed in 1946. It was pretty cool. Then the bridge fell down right next to the building that housed said accelerator and they figured they should shut it down and move it to some abandon iron mine in northern MN.
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:49 pm
by Testiclaw
A lot of universities that had nuclear research (or radioactive research for things like cancers, back in the day) would leave the devices in place after they were shutdown because they were, literally, gigantic and too massive to move. Lead shielding and other substances were just locked behind their doors and built up around them.
There are places that are still radioactive if you break into the labs, if you can find them. They were usually built deep underground for this very reason, and are no threat to the students and faculty and walk over them every day without ever knowing.
Very cool stuff!
Re: So, Kodak -- about that nuclear reactor in your basement
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:03 pm
by Pinky
Jonny Canuck wrote:we need to bomb the fuck out of all of them.
If we don't, Israel will.
