[acidburnNSA]

If you like that one, you'll also love an actually-operated version of this: ML-1 from the 1960s. It operated out in Idaho at the National Reactor Testing Station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML-1

[cduzz]

That article is _hilarious_

"Extensive shielding was omitted in favor of a personnel exclusion zone of 500 feet (150 m) while in operation"