http://www.zenimax.com/external.php?locale=en-us&url=http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had-a-secret-weapons+grade-nuclear-reactor-hidden-in-a-basemant

I wonder how many other companies have one?

Luckily nothing upset it during 9/11 or that would have been an even worse scenario.
Quite neat though, I'm going to ask my boss with the washing machine in the floor below me is actual a nuclear reactor

Heh, that's quite bizarre There's a few nuclear reactors where my father works too, but he works at a nuclear power plant

Yeah, saw that yesterday. Brain Fargo Tweeted about it. Pretty cool if you ask me. I'd like to have one in my basemant.

I wish I had something like that in my basemant. That and a system of Turbines. Take that electric company!

I am disappointed. I thought they were using it to power their building like some kind of real life Tony Stark.

But it turns out they were just using it to do some boring tests on camera stuff.

20%+ is highly enriched uranium, which is the maximum enrichment for compact nuclear reactors (like the one shown in the picture).

90%+ is weapon's grade uranium, too much for any reactor unless you want an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.


Stupid site is stupid.


Edit: Wait... it's just plated with Uranium around a Californium core and they're talking about "weapon's grade" uranium? Gahhh! This is why I hate "news" sites. (They use Californium to produce extra neutrons so they can get away with a lower grade of uranium)

Their pipes had water the same kind of water found in thermonuclear warheads.

I think they worded it weirdly to get people to read. They never said the reactor had weapon-grade material, they just said that, that much material (3.5 pounds) wouldn't be enough to make a bomb.

And technically enriched uranium IS used in nuclear weapons, just not the stuff in the reactor.

Still this type of news reporting is a failure.

edit: This line is questionable
But it really doesn't give any direct information that the reactor had weapon-grade uranium. Heck, it wasn't really "hidden" (maybe to general public)and they told you the reason for the reactor later in the article. Even Fox-news didn't directly link the reactor with weapons-grade material.

Well yes and no. Too much for the kind of reactors civilian power plants use where they practically boil the primary coolant, but the military has to use something close to 90% in order to have high enough power output from small reactors on ships and submarines. It's the pressurized water system (that doesn't boil) that helps self-regulate, and even a tiny percentage of U238 (the kind that takes up the other 10%) is enough to provide the negative feedback needed to control the reactor output.

But yeah, no way that was 90% U235 in there.

Yeah, well we already knew that the military likes to push their nuclear reactors to the edge of weapons-grade when they tried their hand at compact light nuclear reactors for their jet aircraft in the previous decades

Oh look, a sensationalist news article that plays fast and loose with the truth. Nothing new.

*sigh* I doubt Kodak plans to ditch their multimillion dollar camera industry and take up selling small amounts of low-grade uranium to backyard anarchists in order to satisfy stockholders.

THIS!
Then make a nuclear powered car and you'll be set.