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Old October 17th 03, 10:54 AM
Ian Stirling
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Default "Little red schoolhouse" history question (crosspost from s.s.h.)

Derek Lyons wrote:
nt (Gordon) wrote:


Is this the kind of thing they helped to create?
http://www.engg.ksu.edu/ees/centers/reactor.htm

That's one of them. Remarkable engineering and proof that atomic
power can be done sanely.


Umm... No. A research reactor in a pool bears almost no resemblence
to a power reactor.


IIRC, the first reactor was built on a tennis (badminton?) court.
Was the court restored to its former usage afterwards, and does it
still exist?
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