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shostack on Nov 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batte...

This sounds like something out of "Chemicals I won't work with."

leeoniya on Nov 29, 2016 [–]

yeah, also fun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

serg_chernata on Nov 29, 2016 | [–]

Interesting read. Can someone explain why they were performing these experiments in blue jeans and shirts?

bb611 on Nov 29, 2016 | | [–]

It was the 1940's and nuclear material safety wasn't as critical an issue as it is now.

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