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California scientists accidentally find nuclear fever dream in Arctic snow

• Terr_ 2y ago
  For those most-interested in the "nuclear" part of the title: > As a result, the site — along with its 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, 24,000,000 liters of biological waste, and 1.2 million units of radioactive waste — was left behind, forever buried in the snow. Not sure how much a "unit" of radioactive waste is here. The site had a PM-2A "portable" reactor, which was removed during decommissioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm
• potato3732842 2y ago
  TL;DR some people doing a radar survey didn't know about Camp Century and were surprised/interested when it showed up in their data. TFA is just a re-write of existing journalism from last week but with more sensationalist language. Most recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262547
• bastloing 2y ago
  Sometimes I read the headlines and then click on the story and the headline here doesn't match the story. Maybe it's Google translate losing the thought? But in this case they match exactly! Nice!
  • calciphus 2y ago
    Sometimes headlines change after publishing. In this particular case it matches for me (without translating).