Kodak Park Had a Nuclear Reactor

May 14th, 2012

Via: Democrat and Chronicle:

For more than 30 years, Kodak Park was home to a little-known underground labyrinth containing a small nuclear research reactor, one of the few of its kind in the world.

It wasn’t a power plant, and carried no risk of explosion. Nothing ever leaked. Eastman Kodak Co. officials say the research device was perfectly safe.

Still, the reactor was locked down, remotely surveilled and tightly regulated — mainly because it contained 3½ pounds of highly enriched uranium.

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One Response to “Kodak Park Had a Nuclear Reactor”

  1. JWSmythe says:
    May 15, 2012 at 3:06 am

    The link redirects to their home page, and you can’t get the story without subscribing.

    Here’s an alternate link:

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/14/kodak-facility-in-new-york-state-housed-underground-nuclear-reactor-report-says/

    And 270+ other versions of the same…

    https://news.google.com/news/story?q=kodak+park+nuclear+reactor&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&biw=1276&bih=720&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dhaF-U33wvYs7iMbp19c48I86JvRM&ei=W8SxT_zYJuSJ6gHH7pGbCQ&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQqgIwAA

    All in all, an interesting tidbit. There are chunks of all kinds of fun materials all over the place. I’m sure you already know about it, but take a read on David Hahn “The Radioactive Boy Scout”.

    Kodak actually has some very legitimate reasons for having it. They manufacture all kinds of special use film and equipment

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