Yes, I have slept at a Holiday Inn Express. AND I once worked at a nuclear facility. Here's my experience with one of th

[Jimmypoo]

Radiating gemstones is a common activity. It's how one changes the crystalline structure of a stone to
obtain colors. Diamonds, topaz, etc., very common. In fact, you won't find a topaz that hasn't been
radiated and cooked unless you like ugly, raw stones.

[Jimmypoo]

Lux Interior wrote:
I never went to the basement. I think that is where they kept the evil-genius scientists who created mutant human-fish hybrids.

Where do they create those headless chickens that KFC gets 10 pieces out of?

[Will Collier]

When I was in school, every few years, a kid at the college paper would find out that the college (Auburn) had a NUCLEAR REACTOR ON CAMPUS! and write a big, scary "expose" about it. Thing had been around for decades, but you could always count on some journalism major to freak out when s/he learned about its existence.

The reactor was buried between the physics building and the athletic dorm... there was a running joke back then that Pat Dye (head football coach) would have his linemen do push-ups on the mound above the reactor so they'd get irradiated and "Hulk out"...