Posted on 12/05/2019 5:12:30 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra
UPDATE: Columbus Fire Chief Steve Martin says Hazmat and bomb squad crews, responded to a residence in the area at around 6 p.m. He added that authorities are responding to an unconfirmed report that someone building a “nuclear device” claimed they were injured, per WBNS-TV.
Emergency crews are currently investigating a report of a possible small nuclear reactor inside a residential garage in Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Bomb squad have reportedly been called to the scene at a home on the 6300 block of Chippenhook Court, located off the west side of Sawmill Road and just off the east side of Route 33. Hazmat crews have also been called to the scene, per WCMH-TV.
Chippenhook Court has reportedly been evacuated as crews investigate the report. Batallion Chief Steve Martin, the Columbus Division of Fire spokesman, is reportedly en-route to the scene.
No further details have been given. We will provide more information as it becomes available.
You beat me to it!! :-D
Engineer’s memorized Statement: “In my defense, I was left unsupervised!”
Although there may be Muzzies involved, I suspect these are DIY nerds of the STEM persuasion having a giggle on Saturday night.
:-)
i read the headline....and it made me laugh...heh..too funny.
It might seem funny but it really isn’t beyond a budding Thomas Edison to invent a small nuclear reactor. It was done in the 1950’s and 60’s to make it possible to power airplanes with nuclear energy. Read up on molten salt reactors and thorium and you will see the next wave in energy which is cheap and plentiful. Reactors small enough to power a car are not beyond possibility in as short a time as 50 years. Already they can fit in a shipping container. Also look up Terrapower and watch the Netflix program about Bill Gates. It’s the answer to global climate change and still the best thing whether climate change is real or not.
It’s a Gonkulator.
He’s dead
Watch for report: Police thoroughly searched and no guns were found. Everyone feels so much better./s
re: “I tend to think they actually spotted something very slight. Now believed to be the result of contamination or erroneous estimates.”
Damnit, you have NOT been paying attention all these years, you JUST gave away the farm on that one ...
Let’s just say, you aren’t up date, things are NOT as you think they are. I don’t know what or where you last read up on this subject, but its severely out of date.
WTF?
It may be a radioactive pinball machine. Or just fuel for the flux capacitor.
Haha. So true.
Well played, that was a very good episode
Don’t worry. Just another Red Flag call. Maybe.
Didn’t GILBERT used to advertise a small “nuclear reactor” for kids back in the 1950s? I used to have their microscope.
Yep! They did!
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gilbert-atomic-energy-lab
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/gilbert-atomic-energy-lab/
. I don’t know what or where you last read up on this subject, but its severely out of date.
Nothing new, I’m used to it.
Just tonight my wife pointed out that my favorite salad dressing was months out of date.
Not as bad as the milk that I noticed had started to turn, yes, it too was out of date.
Oh, and rest assured things are almost NEVER, as I think they are.
Just ask my wife of many years.
It’s a transducer Jim! Taps into a wee bit of the Higgs Field!
I did some research on aqueous homogenous reactors and it seems like you could build them with garage tech and natural uranium. 25kw to 50kw sized units seam feasible. You would need to house one in a small building packed with polyethylene shielding and also run a little chemical plant to handle the fission products and activated byproduct, but totally doable. Apparently neutron reflector tech is way better than it used to be. Of course it would be a nuclear proliferation nightmare, but heh, neighborhood nuclear power plant!
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