Random Question

Mollie Hemingway, Ed. · May 14, 2012 at 3:51pm

Do any of you have a secret nuclear reactor loaded with weapons-grade uranium hidden in your basement?

I never would have thought to ask, but just want to make sure. Anything else you want to get off your chest?

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Wait, you don’t?

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I knew it was only a matter of time before the Department of Homeland Security starting trolling around on here, like they do not the gun forums.

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On advice of counsel I respectfully assert my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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Would pretty much have to be secret wouldn't it?

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Yes, there is something that I would like to get off my chest. I prefer single-malt Scotch.

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Also, it turns out Hostess ® had a massive stockpile of chemical weapons.

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I am not suprised, at one point kodak park was the center for government imagery technology and research, no small amount of which was for the defense department, and the cold war had all kinds of crazy disaster plans for technology centers.

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Growing up in E. Tennessee, we knew about the reactors in Oak Ridge. Nobody in our little town had one though. Moonshine stills? That's another story.

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Roberto

That was one merit badge I never managed to get:

Golf Manor, a subdivision in Commerce Township, Mich., some 25 miles outside of Detroit, is the kind of place where nothing unusual is supposed to happen, where the only thing lurking around the corner is an ice-cream truck. But June 26, 1995, was not a typical day.

Ask Dottie Pease. Cruising down Pinto Drive, Pease saw half a dozen men crossing her neighbor's lawn. Three, in respirators and white moon suits, were dismantling her next-door neighbor's shed with electric saws, stuffing the pieces into large steel drums emblazoned with radioactive warning signs....
The cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn. He had attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed following a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

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GLDIII

I will take a look around the basement tonight, so much stuff I can never be sure. At times I feel it would be easier to burn the place down and collect the insurance rather than move to stuff....

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DocJay

Nope just a crawlspace with Fuller brush salesman and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Ken Owsley

I have a grown son living in my basement. I'd prefer the nuclear reactor. Anyone want to swap?

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Ken Owsley: I have a grown son living in my basement. I'd prefer the nuclear reactor. Anyone want to swap? · _{33 minutes ago}

No, my Reactor is much more productive.

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Roberto: That was one merit badge I never managed to get:

Golf Manor, a subdivision in Commerce Township, Mich., some 25 miles outside of Detroit, is the kind of place where nothing unusual is supposed to happen, where the only thing lurking around the corner is an ice-cream truck. But June 26, 1995, was not a typical day.

Ask Dottie Pease. Cruising down Pinto Drive, Pease saw half a dozen men crossing her neighbor's lawn. Three, in respirators and white moon suits, were dismantling her next-door neighbor's shed with electric saws, stuffing the pieces into large steel drums emblazoned with radioactive warning signs....
The cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn.He had attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed following a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

_{1 hour ago}

Fascinating story. One of my favorite aspects is the juxtaposition of these two sentences:

"Publicly, the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that day said there was nothing to fear."

"...conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, 'present an imminent endangerment to public health.'"

No kiddin'!

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Paul A. Rahe: Yes, there is something that I would like to get off my chest. I prefer single-malt Scotch. · _{2 hours ago}

Ivory tower Elitist.

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Ken Owsley: I have a grown son living in my basement. I'd prefer the nuclear reactor. Anyone want to swap? · _{38 minutes ago}

Is there a superfund for cleaning older children out of the house?

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It was on sale at a flea market. I picked it up for $20, but I haven't used that old reactor in years. It is currently acting as a shelf for my baseball card collection.

Some people prefer gas-powered generators for emergencies, but I'm in the MORE POWER camp.