RE: New 007 movie

["Edwards, Richard W" <Richard.Edwards@PSS.Boeing.com>]

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> Subject: 	New 007 movie
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> I am just curious as to what everyone thought of the new 007 movie.  Or
> at least  the ending scenes.
> 
I grew up with the image of Captain Crane of the submarine Seaview pulling the control rods out of the reactor by hand to keep it from going critical...which was supposed to be a bad thing. (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, if you miss the reference.) Then there was the old Batman TV show with an open nuclear reactor in the Batcave for gunmolls to fall into. So I don't worry too much about Hollywood's version of nuclear physics and engineering. Occasionally I'll remind folks I know that the writers rarely hire a reactor expert in developing scripts or the producers for shooting them and it's really not that way.

That and laugh a lot during the "tense" spots.

Rick Edwards, Analyst
The Boeing Company
richard.w.edwards@boeing.com

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