Fukushima is exactly right - Do journalist figure history started this morning when they got up. For god sakes the tsunami was just several years ago.
I mean how much fish are you eating these days from the pacific?
Or for a future nuclear disaster coming to a state near you. Hanford is a slow moving catastrophe that is a natural disaster - strong thunderstorm??? from all those tanks of waste leaving their extremely rusty home in search of the - Columbia River - oh that is gonna be sweet.
I have a rectanguler cube of carbon from the first ever nuclear reactor the Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942 somewhere around here . I was told the scientists were very excited because they had numerous schemes they wanted to experiment with but the very first reactor method worked. I wonder what has happened to all those other schemes. So far nothing very safe or not toxic has seemed to been developed.
I mean how much fish are you eating these days from the pacific?
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None that I’ve seen. The Japanese now import much of their fish.
The uranium for that University of Chicago reactor was produced (refined) at Iowa State College (University). It was shipped out in boxcars that looked like they were empty...one layer of uranium ingots met the load limit for the boxcar. Dr Frank Spedding headed the project. A cousin of mine worked on the project.
Dr Spedding was an expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.
Dr Spedding founded the Ames Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission and headed it. During the early 1960's I worked at Ames Laboratory as an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student. Dr Spedding was our 'boss'.