Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Nuclear plants. Date: 26 Sep 2025 04:33:47 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10ac8lq$2nkob$2@dont-email.me> <68d087a6@news.ausics.net> <10ar9d9$2a86g$1@dont-email.me> <68d1d3e6@news.ausics.net> <10atuhj$2tidd$15@dont-email.me> <68d333e6@news.ausics.net> <8vvdqlxsif.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10b1qqt$3ur87$1@dont-email.me> <10b3mei$ckr0$1@dont-email.me> <1dfgqlxpr3.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BaZLmOYOBl6as6D82GIifQMx3HVsLUWNMTq2DF7UCthM8XmfAP Cancel-Lock: sha1:TrQtrNGnVVz1gNOw2f0QKiift7c= sha256:zWWCJ7/4ffYxMRoPsxhhZnTDI8yW/fnMJXwGQavPrYc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75259 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24561 On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:48:33 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1006351.We_Almost_Lost_Detroit No big loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1 Ignorance is bliss. I think it's one of Feynman's book where he talks about early experiments to determine the critical mass. They had two blocks of uranium on a workbench with a Geiger counter. The tech pushed one towards the other with a screwdriver until the counter went nuts. Also they didn't know what to expect for the first atomic bomb test and had monitoring devices set up a different distances. They all were destroyed but the bunker where the scientists were survived. Even for the bombing of Hiroshima the pilots weren't sure that it wasn't going to be a one-way trip.