“The academic-reactor designer is a dilettante. … He is free to luxuriate in elegant ideas, the practical shortcomings of which can be relegated to the category of ‘mere technical details.’ The practical-reactor designer must live with these same technical details.”
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Last Monday, June 5th, was the 70th anniversary of the initial publication of the infamous Rickover "Paper Reactor" memo.
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