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2009-01-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-01-09 11:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Amazing story. I hope the guy who took the pictures was wearing lead underwear.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-01-09 11:35|| 2009-01-09 11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 So I wonder how long it took those looters to die?

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-09 11:40|| 2009-01-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, a small nuke reactor is an ingenious solution to the problem of providing electricity, heat, light and gamma rays to a remote location.

Posted by SteveS 2009-01-09 15:45|| 2009-01-09 15:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I have to ask... how brightly do they glow in the dark?

Posted by 3dc 2009-01-09 17:58|| 2009-01-09 17:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the article was incorrect; as several of the commenters pointed out, it was probably an RTG and not a reactor.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-09 21:31|| 2009-01-09 21:31|| Front Page Top

#6 It's one of those WTF were the Soviets thinking moments. They placed thousands of pounds of extremely dangerous isotopes like Strontium-90 in each remote unguarded lighthouse just to light a lightbulb. A few pounds of this stuff is enough to contaminate any major city center and the Soviets left lying around, though remote, hundreds of thousands of pounds for the taking.

Posted by Phulet Big Foot2825 2009-01-09 22:38|| 2009-01-09 22:38|| Front Page Top

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