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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 13 2019, @12:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the glow-in-the-dark-film dept.

In January 1951 a geiger counter at Kodak's headquarters in New York registered readings 25 times higher than normal during a snowstorm. It turned out that on the 27th of January the first nuclear test occurred at the Nevada Proving Grounds location.

In 1952, Kodak notified the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) about its findings. The commission dismissed Kodak's concerns, even allowing Kodak to give a press release about radioactive snow. Kodak was told that the radiation in the snow wasn't harmful to humans or animals, which it relayed in the press release.

Kodak would eventually go on to threaten to sue the United States government for the nuclear tests due to the damage it was causing to their X-ray film. The U.S. government and Kodak eventually worked out a deal where the AEC would notify Kodak of future tests so precautions could be made to protect the film. In return, Kodak was to keep silent about the nuclear testing.

Source:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/kodak-had-weapons-grade-uranium-in-their-basement-6a6c15d5677f


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  • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Monday May 13 2019, @03:29PM (2 children)

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Monday May 13 2019, @03:29PM (#843040)

    thought for a second that they performed entanglement (quantum) with Uranium in Nuclear Weapons. I was like oh shit, a new weapon.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday May 13 2019, @09:09PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday May 13 2019, @09:09PM (#843155) Journal

    Weapons have a basis in the real world. Quantum (entanglement or otherwise) is quite solidly in the theoretical.

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:31AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:31AM (#843254) Journal

      Quantum (entanglement or otherwise) is quite solidly in the theoretical.

      It's experimentally observed with such things as the two slot experiments where, for example, one can observe single photons passing through two closely placed slots and creating interference patterns - a simple form of quantum self-entanglement.

      There are a number of standard experimental ways to create entangled particles. For a notable example, the "quantum teleportation" tricks that demonstrate quantum entanglement of various particles (usually electrons and photons) on human spatial scales (some entanglement attempts reach kilometers apart or more before breaking).