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Originally Posted by HalvOnHorseracing
I posted a short piece on Fermi's contribution to nuclear reactors on the religion thread.
I am familiar with Enrico Fermi's work and have visited his reactor No.1 in Washington state on the Columbia river. Actually I had somewhat of a VIP tour because I was working on some nuclear energy issues for my clients, so I was shown a lot of stuff other people don't get to see. The small reactor that produced some of the plutonium that was used in one of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan. That reactor is being used as a museum now.
They have a storage area where the reactors from retired ships and submarines. They have also been working on a containment system where used high level nuclear material could be stored inside special glass that kept the radiation from escaping (called vitrification). Easy storage, easy transport.
I would strongly recommend looking at the biographies of Fermi. Very interesting life.
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Is this the Hanford site? I know a little company that is involved in the clean-up process, along with much larger contractors. Did you tour Hanford? Protocols, if it is even allowed?
