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technothrashertoday at 1:45 PM1 replyview on HN

This reminded me of the “Isotope Storage Lab” in the basement tunnels of the University of Rochester medical center annex. I always thought it sounded cool when I would walk by it… until I learned of the horrific experiments conducted at the med center in the 1940’s where they injected unaware patients with plutonium to see what would happen.


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Tade0today at 1:54 PM

I have a different association. In my native language the adjective "nuclear" and the one expressing that something is one way or another related to testicles are homographs.

My faculty had an "institute of nuclear problems" in the basement and considering the people who revived the institution after world war 2 and their proteges had no issue naming a program for analyzing oscilloscope data ANAL, this was no accident.