Nuclear fission is a powerful phenomenon. When the conditions are right, atomic nuclei split, releasing neutrons that then split other nuclei in an ongoing chain reaction that releases enormous amo…
  • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A couple good stories in there I hadn’t heard. “technicians were mixing chemicals in stainless steel buckets instead, rather than using the buffer tank that was designed to prevent criticality incidents.”