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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@wellerstein Secrecy about materials, equipment, and other engineering aspects vastly slowed development of peaceful nuclear energy
@Atomicrod This is because reactors were not, in their initial incarnation, "peaceful" — they were machines for making plutonium.
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@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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