Word: reactors
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...thing is clear: this story isn't over. Earlier this month, an IAEA team left Seoul after taking more samples at the TRIGA Mark III reactor. According to the Geneva-based diplomat, "There is more to come...
...Apparently, not completely, as revelations pouring out of Seoul this month have revealed. One centers around an idle TRIGA Mark III research reactor located in a dilapidated building in a residential suburb of Seoul. In the 1970s and '80s, the TRIGA Mark III was used by Korean nuclear scientists to test nuclear fuel and study isotopes. In April or May 1982, scientists took an irradiated test fuel rod from the reactor and placed it in one of the research installation's "hot cells," a room clad with lead to block radioactivity. Using robotic arms and peering through a leaded window...
...Cambridge, MIT has operated such a reactor since 1958, and its safety was scrutinized in the fall of 2001 as members of the City Council feared that it could be a vulnerable target for terrorist action...
...Zealand, says Foreign Minister Goff, but nor is it likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim community has "nothing for terrorists to organize," says Paul Buchanan...
...spotlight, genius can grow up twisted and strange. David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark...