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Kodak Ran a Secret Nuclear Device in Its Basement for Decades. It Was a Scientific Marvel.
In the middle of the Cold War, the film company found a surprising way to harness weapons-grade uranium.
In a secured Rochester, New York, office basement, a nuclear device the size of a fridge spent three decades quietly firing off neutrons for Eastman Kodak without a fuss. But after it was shut down and shipped away, an employee mentioned it to a reporter. Word spread, alarms rang in newsrooms, and even CNN jumped in to cover the story: Kodak had been using weapons-grade uranium in the bowels of its labyrinthine research labs.