Path: csiph.com!xmission!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!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: 27 Sep 2025 02:30:33 GMT Lines: 22 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> <68d72cf4@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 65hjz8FQ0pqDsBdgqdbyhw++opvldtpy8b+mEtBuuM7IBcoSOr Cancel-Lock: sha1:HngCVPbNmm1L1BJTqp3zx22oiIg= sha256:nyK77mS9g+U+HLzAglNZxoLEZOJfCXMAbTbI31EJX5k= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75327 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24605 On 27 Sep 2025 10:16:52 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > In comp.os.linux.misc rbowman wrote: >> 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. > > It didn't end well for the tech: > https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1946USA1.html That would be the one. I didn't remember the details, mostly that he was using a very sophisticated piece of lab equipment -- a screwdriver. It doesn't say what the clue was when it went critical.