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Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

As Germany is currently trying to dump radioactive waste from failed Pebble Bed Nuclear reactors upon the US – moving it from comparatively secure bunker-like buildings in Germany to sit outside, or under tarp, in the sweltering heat of South Carolina, using the lie that these were experimental reactors (whereas they were attached to the grid) and that this somehow makes the US liable for Germany’s nuclear waste (even though the US had rejected this type of nuclear reactor multiple times), it is instructive to recall that alarm at (Nazi) German nuclear research IS the reason that the US developed nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors in the first place. This is what motivated the scientists, and some opted out of the project once Germany was no long involved in World War II.