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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
I was part of a nuclear accelerator project in the 80s and our budget costs increased 50% simply because of the stoppages. Not design changes. Special interest groups in the community wanted more safety from the "nuclear" part of our work. It took numerous public meetings to help them understand that all of our "nuclear" material derived from simply taking the electrons away from our hydrogen gas stream.
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It takes a special kind of stupid to not understand the difference between a fuel pile fission reactor and a particle accelerator.
I thought the only society capable of supporting people that stupid was the United States.
I guess "anything nuclear is bad" transcends all languages and cultures.
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