Students Build Reactor For Scavenger Hunt

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Students Build Reactor For Scavenger Hunt 96

Posted by Hemos on Thursday May 20, 1999 @10:30AM from the mmm-i-love-school dept.

MattJ writes "At the end of this NYT story about a scavenger hunt at UofChicago, you discover two physics students got points for building a working nuclear reactor, in a day, from scratch. It's a bit scary how easy it was for them to actually produce plutonium. " Reminds me of some of things we did in Biochem. But the lawyer says I'm not supposed to talk about that.

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