I have a little problem with Popular Mechanics being the messenger for such a revolutionary process in nuclear science.
I basically remember the magazine for articles about making my bike sound like a motorcycle with only a clothes pin and a piece of cardboard.
(For those of you too young to know what a high tech device a clothes pin was at the time, maybe Google will have it)
Staple for the production of rubber-band Guns.
Yeah, clothes pins rank right up there with duct tape for being high tech. LOL