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RUSSIA'S YARD SALE Psst! Wanna buy a MiG jet fighter? How about 200 lbs. of uncut emeralds or a little nuclear-reactor fuel? In once secret military-industrial cities, all this and more is for sale. But beware: the mafia, the KGB, old party officials and new Moscow bureaucrats may want a piece of the action...
...true." says Chris Kagay, '94, another knowledgeble Quadling. "In fact, the Manhattan Project used the squash courts to build the first fission reactor. Of course, at that time it was at the University of Chicago...
...said he thinks that the "red glow" may have been a chunk of the reactor that was hurled away from the core during the explosion...
...Material certainly got into the core region," he said. "I can vouch for the fact, since I flew over the reactor days after the explosion...
After college and a brief stint at the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology, he headed directly for Harvard and has spent little time away since. After a 1953 Ph.D., and a few years spent with the Federal government--unsurprisingly, during an energy crisis--he returned to the University...