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I remember when Los Alamos wanted to decommission some research reactor, they were interviewing 80-year-old retired staff to figure out what they were going to
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
I remember when Los Alamos wanted to decommission some research reactor, they were interviewing 80-year-old retired staff to figure out what they were going to find down there. Because what they planned and what they built hardly resembled each other.
- saganus 3y agoWould love to hear that story!
- r721 3y agoHere's a similar story this comment reminded me of: >Institutional memory and reverse smuggling https://web.archive.org/web/20111228105122/http://wrttn.in/04af1a https://web.archive.org/web/20111228105122/http://wrttn.in/0... HN discussion from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3390719