Nuclear power
Nuclear power delivers low-carbon baseload electricity—but only by accepting high cost, slow deployment, and unresolved waste.
Nuclear
The technology that is both the bomb and the cleanest power available.
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Small modular reactor
SMRs don’t fix nuclear’s economics—they repackage its constraints.
Nuclear reactor
Enrico Fermi
Chicago Pile-1 was not a power plant. It was a proof-of-concept pile — physically crude, operationally minimal, and militarily urgent. Its success established that controlled fission was possible. Its limitations — no heat extraction, no radiation shielding, no control rods beyond cadmium-coated wood — show how far engineering lagged behind theory.
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Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics · 1981
Silicon Graphics built the first practical hardware-accelerated 3D graphics systems. Its Geometry Engine — designed at Stanford under ARPA — delivered ~6 million geometry operations per second. It pioneered scalable cc-NUMA architectures in the mid-1990s. But its reliance on proprietary MIPS and failed transitions to Itanium and Xeon eroded its position as PC graphics commoditised. It filed for bankruptcy in 2009.