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novomit
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response 50 of 60:
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Jul 10 12:53 UTC 2003 |
Creep!
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gull
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response 51 of 60:
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Jul 10 13:08 UTC 2003 |
I'm not sure if graphite is used in nuclear weapons themselves, but it's
used as a moderator in some nuclear reactor designs.
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russ
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response 52 of 60:
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Jul 11 03:58 UTC 2003 |
Re #51: AFAIK, nuclear weapons use materials like beryllium for
neutron reflectors; they have no use for moderators like graphite.
The reactors which *produce* weapons-grade Pu use it, though.
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gull
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response 53 of 60:
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Jul 11 14:01 UTC 2003 |
Yeah, that makes sense.
I remember that the early reactors in the U.S. were basically big piles
of graphite blocks.
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russ
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response 54 of 60:
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Jul 12 06:26 UTC 2003 |
A-yup, the "squash court reactor" at the University of Chicago
(wonder what that area is now, and if you could find it using
a scintillation counter to find neutron-activated materials?)
was a natural-uranium, graphite-moderated "atomic pile". The
nomenclature tells a great deal about the physical form, no?
The N reactor at Hanford and the Soviet RMBK's were not terribly
different in many respects.
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jaklumen
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response 55 of 60:
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Jul 13 05:28 UTC 2003 |
<jaklumen lives not far from the deactivated N reactor>
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pvn
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response 56 of 60:
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Aug 9 07:12 UTC 2003 |
(re#54: The site of the "squash court" is currently a campus library.
One presumes that only geeks are exposed to the radiation.)
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russ
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response 57 of 60:
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Aug 9 21:03 UTC 2003 |
Which library is it exactly? Might be fun to traipse through it.
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pvn
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response 58 of 60:
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Aug 10 05:07 UTC 2003 |
re#57: The one with the mushroom cloud statue out front.
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russ
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response 59 of 60:
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Aug 11 22:05 UTC 2003 |
I was kind of hoping that this library had a name and a street
address to identify it. Sculpture tends not to be indexed well.
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pvn
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response 60 of 60:
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Aug 17 05:49 UTC 2003 |
I thinks its called the Regenstein or something like that and it is west
of Woodlawn on 57th I thinks. I know where it is exactly I jest can't
tell you exactly.
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