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with disastrous consequences.
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Well, in terms of the reactor,
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to prevent such events reactors make use,
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as you know,of boron control rods
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that are inserted to control the rate of fission
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--of uranium and plutonium, and to limit chain reactions.
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In this way, what Chadwick wanted to do,
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by analogy, was to use older people like control rods
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that would have the calming effect of preventing social meltdown
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and social revolution.
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But to do that you had to do something about infectious diseases,
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to achieve this demographic transformation of the population.