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Plutopia

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Sep 19, 2026

Jon RichterHOST
31:19
And so it's kind of that, but then juxtaposed with all the kind of paranoia and Cold War stuff and tech.
Jon RichterHOST
31:27
And so that, now I've, just as coincidence really, I've just been reading a book, forgive me, I've not got it with me, so I can't say who the writer is, but it's called Plutopia.
Jon RichterHOST
31:35
And it's about, it's sort of talking about an American... nuclear processing plant and a Russian one and how they were kind of stealing secrets from each other and copying each other's own work or mainly the Russians stealing from the Americans I think to be
Matt AdcockHOST
31:48
honest doing a knuckle version correct

7 MINS LATER

Jon RichterHOST
38:55
Some other, it'll be some other city, won't it? Some other Colorado or whatever will be the next one.
Jon RichterHOST
39:00
I'm looking forward to that.
Jon RichterHOST
39:02
I should probably mention, actually, the book I talked about in the episode is Plutopia by Kate Brown, which I'm still working my way through, and it's just really harrowing, you know, all the corners that were caught in safety, not just in Russia, but in American society.
Jon RichterHOST
39:17
plutonium facilities with people having to process irradiated chemicals by hand and not even wearing gloves because if he wore gloves they couldn't pipette the sufficiently accurate measurements oh my god so read that, highly recommended if you fancy being upset about the past.

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