@wellerstein Secrecy about materials, equipment, and other engineering aspects vastly slowed development of peaceful nuclear energy
And for the thousands of chemists, metallurgists, and engineers on the project, it would be a sore spot—only the physics was declassifiable.
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@Atomicrod This is because reactors were not, in their initial incarnation, "peaceful" — they were machines for making plutonium. -
@wellerstein Were piles that produced controlled chain reactions and heat that engineers knew could be captured and used. Useful knowledge -
@Atomicrod The scientists involved saw practical civilian applications as being decades off. They were focused on the plutonium production.
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