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Nuclear Reactors As Art
Hemos recommends the coverage over at Wired of a project to digitize nuclear reactor art. "Not all nuclear reactors are built alike. Power plant designs can vary in their fuels, coolants, and configurations, a fact beautifully illustrated by a series of reactor wall charts originally published in issues of Nuclear Engineering International during the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, the charts have been lovingly collected by Ronald Knief, a nuclear engineer at Sandia National Laboratory. Recently, he completed his collection... and began to digitize the drawings. The first eight out of more than 100 have now been permanently archived online... 'This is not a CAD/CAM-type thing,' Knief said. 'This really is art.'"
In fact just make sure you take a look at which countries have nukes before you comment on this again.
There are a lot of ways to correct factual errors that don't involve telling the other person to shut up. Your post had a lot of excellent points, but then you crapped all over it with an ad homid attack. Also -- wikipedia? Seriously?
First, Pakistan didn't develop the technology -- they bought or stole it, which is exactly the scenario I put forward as most likely to occur. Here's an official congressional report [PDF] on the issue, instead of a wiki link. Lastly, the Pakistan issue is twenty years old now. While they're not exactly what would be called an island of stability -- if they were going to do something stupid they'd have done it by now. China isn't "for hire" by terrorists -- Their interest in Pakistan is as a strategic hedge against India.
So no... Pakistan is being watched, but it's not high on the list.
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Terrorists don't build reactors!
Iranians are a nation and they are not terrorists because another nation(s) claim so.
If by terrorist you mean people (countries) which kill other people (from their own or other countries) for unjust reasons, then you can list more eligible countries.
Iran has never started a war in last 150 years.
Another country has started/participated in more than 50 wars and has killed millions (including those killed by atomic bombs!).
Nucular, the word is 'nucular'.