Kodak has its own nuclear reactor. You paying attention, Ahmadinejad? One of our bankrupt camera …

Kodak has its own nuclear reactor. You paying attention, Ahmadinejad? One of our bankrupt camera companies is closer to a Bomb than you.

Kodak set us up the bomb: kept a nuclear reactor in the basement

As Kodak stumbles through its bankruptcy, all sorts of weird facts are surfacing, like the news that the company had its own nuclear reactor, producing weapons-grade isotopes. It was installed for neutron imaging experiments in 1974, and while the feds were duly notified, it doesn't look like there was ever a public announcement — nor was there any notice given to the local firefighters who'd have turned up if anything ever went wrong. If only I'd known about this when writing Makers (which …

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