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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
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> > reactor, standing on a gantry over the heavy water tank, looking down at • the
> > glowing reactor core some 9 metres below the surface of the water)
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> Told you it wasn't the well water in Innerkip, Chris... :)
LOL! Actually, I've toured... I think at least 4 reactors. Too bad that's a
practice I can no longer enjoy. Bruce Nuclear and Cook Nuclear (Michigan) I
know I've had tours at, and it was McMaster University's reactor I got to
get really up-close and personal with back in like, 97? when everyone was
thinking about going to university (HA!).
> That was seriously cool though. I wanted to be up in Kincardine at Bruce • B
> in New Years in 1999. I figured it there was a place to die on Y2K, it'd • be
> right at the source...
What, you thought the moderators were gonna get pulled out or what? :)
Iain
PS - Calum has this really awesome book about design engineering things gone
wrong. One of the things in it talks about this horrific accident that
happened way back a while ago when the United States was first fooling
around with nuclear power generation. I don't want to spoil it for anyone
who might read it (Storytime at the next dinner?), but it's really, really
gut-wrenching...
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| (...) Well, if you're counting that, I got to see the Slowpoke at the University of Toronto several times...There used to be this box which said something to effect of "If this box makes a noise call 416/978-xxxx" around that room in Haultain which (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Told you it wasn't the well water in Innerkip, Chris... :) That was seriously cool though. I wanted to be up in Kincardine at Bruce B in New Years in 1999. I figured it there was a place to die on Y2K, it'd be right at the source... Calum (23 years ago, 18-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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