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A 70-foot room in Idaho full of argon, behind four feet of concrete, is where America cuts open used fuel rods, the cuts get marked with a Sharpie wrapped in tape, a plumber's pipe cutter does the rough work, and it just got a plaque for a career that is not over - autonocion.com

Published by Autonocion.com 6 September 2026 at 22:00

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None of that fuel gets approved because a company says it works. Somebody has to pull a used rod out of a reactor, cut it open and measure what the neutrons

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A 70-foot room in Idaho full of argon, behind four feet of concrete, is where America cuts open used fuel rods, the cuts get marked with a Sharpie wrapped in tape, a plumber's pipe cutter does the rough work, and it just got a plaque for a career that is not over - autonocion.com

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