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CNN Pandoras Promise November 8, 2013 06:30:00

>> all right. thanks very much. >> so in 1980s, i was given the job of directing the entire program of advanced reactor development at argonne national laboratory. our goal was to design a new type of reactor where the very physics of it would be such that it could withstand almost any type of accident that nuclear plants can be subject to. it was called the ifr. the integral fast reactor. the budget was about $100 million a year. 1500 people, scientists, engineers, supporting staff. this was a very big development program. but you've got to test it. calculations don't tell you everything. you've got to have the big

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