Comments by "Alexander Sylchuk" (@sshko101) on "Why British Nuclear Energy Failed" video.

José Antonio Bolseiro went to Manchester to work on his post-doctoral research under the guidance of Rosenfeld. He was ordered to go back to Argentina few weeks before finishing his british scolarship program in order to join the Huemul project. After his arrival back home he was one of those scientist who managed to convince Perón to stop the nuclear fusion project and switch to more realistic nuclear fission program. He later lead main argentinian nuclear research institute up untill his death. Interesting enough fist and only australian nuclear power plant was designed and built by argentinian organisation which was started partly because of Bolseiro, despite the fact that the first british nuclear bomb was tested in Australia. I should continue reading on this, it's interesting, brasilian nuclear program is also interesting but it also hard to find something about. One of my professors was actually building computers on soviet nuclear power plants. One funny story he told was about using the very first CMOS RAM in the Soviet union. The control room of power plant they was working on at the time was covered in nice red carpets, it looked really nice so he with all his colegues naturally took off their shoes and installed everything. The problem was that after assembly computers didn't work, the memory was dead. They had to make emergency delivery of that new memory from Moscow to Siberia (I believe it was somewhere near Novosibirsk). Only after killing the first batch of memory they realised that they didn't count electrostatic discharge from the carpet. They didn't knew at the time that the biggest vulnerability of that new technology was static electricity, since it was the very first practical use of CMOS in any soviet project (at least from his words, but I have no reasons to doubt it). When they got working memory they took out the carpets, installed everything, everything worked this time.
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