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Kodak’s Secret Nuclear Reactor

By Tom Wyrick on May 14, 2012 in Culture, Odds And Ends, Science

If a company in your town had their own nuclear reactor full of uranium, you’d think it would be under constant guard and well known by residents, right? It turns out the Eastman Kodak company kept just such a reactor a secret for over 30 years in Rochester, New York. Its existence was revealed only […]

Antelope Audio Preamps Go Nuclear With Atomic Clock

By Jeremy Goldstone on April 24, 2012 in Hardware, Other Gadgets

The old joke with consumer electronics used to be that you didn’t make anything new, you just took something old and shoved a digital clock into it. Antelope Audio went a few steps past that with their new Rubicon preamp — it has a 10M Rubidium atomic clock. To paraphrase Marty McFly, “This sucker’s nuclear.” The […]

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