re: UT Represents in this week's Meltdown

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"Sort of dominated" the line of scrimmage. What does totally dominated look like? Nagasaki?

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Even that comeback/analogy is a fail: Hiroshima is the appropriate reference.

The uranium and most other components used in Little Boy were enriched at Oak Ridge and Little Boy was used on Hiroshima. The first production of Plutonium-239 which was used as a proof of concept and to develop Fat Man was also done at Oak Ridge but the actual Plutonium used in Fat Man came from the Hanford Site in Washington**. Given that this rivalry is older than the Manhattan Project and subsequent bombings, I expect our fans (and that includes Bammers) to know this!

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As a side note: Hanford is a complete disaster zone compared to other sites. GE took over operations in 1946 whereas ORNL has remained gubmint supervised.

GE designed the reactors at Fukushima!