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• soneca 5y ago
  I could not pass its Captcha. It just reloaded the Captcha page and I would never reach the article
• camtarn 5y ago
  The last paragraph was truncated for me. I had to look at the page source to read it! Reproduced here for those on mobile browsers: "It's a weird experience, crawling over the guts of one of the marvels of the atomic age, smelling the thing (mostly machine oil and steam, and a hint of ozone near the transformers), all the while knowing that although it's one of the safest and most energy-efficient civilian power reactors ever built it's a a technological dead-end, that there won't be any more of them, and that when it shuts down in thirty or forty years' time this colossal collision between space age physics and victorian plumbing will be relegated to a footnote in the history books. 'Energy too cheap to meter' it ain't, but as a symbol of what we can achieve through engineering it's hard to beat."