Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor underground for over 30 years

Re:Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor underground for over ... by beefman on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @02:41AM (#3980792)

Small research reactors are not uncommon at large companies and universities. Even Reed college has one, which I visited last year when I was traveling through Portland. "Tested" recently visited it too

http://www.tested.com/videos/44278-will-and-norm-visit-the-r...

Such reactors were typically fueled with HEU (Reed exchanged their HEU fuel for LEU only a few years ago).

And no reactor is secret -- all civilian reactors in the United States are registered with the NRC and you can look them up on the NRC website (and wikipedia).

Gizmodo may have degraded the story, but the original source (local paper) wasn't much better. I'm afraid it's just another hack story about fission by a hack journalist who couldn't be bothered to do the most basic web search on what he was reporting.

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Re:Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor underground for over ... by uvdiv on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:51AM (#3980940)

This isn't technically a nuclear reactor (not critical), so it doesn't appear on any of the usual lists like [1] or [2] (prior to edits made after this story came out). It isn't mentioned on any major NRC page, although they host some of its paperwork [3].

[1] http://nucleus.iaea.org/RRDB/RR/ReactorSearch.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_nuclear_r...

[3] https://www.google.com/?hl=en#q=kodak+site:nrc.gov+-filetype...

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Re:Kodak kept a secret nuclear reactor underground for over ... by beefman on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @04:28AM (#3981036)

Thanks, didn't even see it was a CFX. Add calling it a reactor to the list of distortions.

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