In May 1972 a worker at a nuclear fuel–processing plant in France noticed something suspicious. He had been conducting a routine analysis of uranium derived from a seemingly ordinary source of ore.
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Potentially a great and fascinating story but the editors at Scientific American must have forgotten the editing bit. The feature meanders with constantly changing emphasis from personal inquiry to the fundamentally scientific which makes for difficult reading. To make the narrative work it needs more details in some areas and less in others.
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