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Nuclear Power - Part 1

Atoms for Peace?

  • WrenchMonkey

WrenchMonkey

16 Dec 2025 • 7 min read
Operators in a fantastically complex Chernobyl control room.
Chernobyl control room. (Photo Credit: Dana Sacchetti/IAEA, Wikimedia commons 12/10/25.)

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A hot side on the left, cool side on the right, radiating fins surrounding a central mechanism. Obviously not an engineering drawing. See below for that!

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