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Nazi Reactor Scored 0.94 Out of 1, Beaten by a Filing Cabinet
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: ScienceDaily.
Vera BullockSurviving uranium cubes and wartime documents show Nazi Germany never had enough uranium or heavy water to make its reactor work, ScienceDaily reports.
Kenji MoonfieldThe reactor, called B8, held six hundred sixty-four uranium cubes hung on chains in heavy water, in a rock cellar in Haigerloch.
Vera BullockResearchers estimate a working version needed about three point one tons of uranium, and B8 had roughly one and a half.
Vera BullockThat's a strong foundation to build on.
Kenji MoonfieldHalf the uranium, on chains. It's the world's worst hanging mobile.
Vera BullockThe reactor's multiplication factor was calculated at zero point nine four. A chain reaction needs one.
Kenji MoonfieldSo ninety-four percent of the way there?
Vera BullockSomewhere a spokesman is saying zero point nine four is a chain reaction in beta.
Kenji MoonfieldThe catch is that the study only examined two cubes, and one of them was found in a filing cabinet in two thousand eleven.
Vera BullockSo the filing cabinet outperformed the reactor.
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