There is a freaking 60-year-old nuclear power plant in the Congo

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>nb4 "25 year rule":
The fucking thing has been there since 1958 (and still uses the same ancient tech), so discussing it is in compliance with the 25 year rule.

How can this not have melted down yet?

"A look inside the world’s least secure nuclear reactor"

"Today, the reactors are housed in an indistinct administrative building of the sort ubiquitous across the global south. It’s a crumbling, Z-grade, concrete-and-rebar brutalist homage of about 40 rooms perched on the University of Kinshasa’s campus, about an hour’s drive up the hill from downtown Kinshasa....
Still technically a functioning research facility, CREN-K’s offices now host just a few poorly paid scientists. Some are busy playing God with radiation to grow freakazoid plants, nobly seeking a malaria cure. Others analyse endless concrete samples for radiation with dingy computers running Microsoft Windows 2000. Caked beakers, vintage centrifuges, and dented aluminium sterilizers shipped all the way from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, are strewn about the shoebox-sized labs.

But this mothballed dream still has thousands of years of fuel, concentrated in what used to be 140 indigenously mined enriched-uranium fuel rods scattered around the compound in a few barely fortified buildings. Congolese uranium, the very kind that once filled the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has been shopped around the world, enriched and raw, in burlap sacks and suitcases weighing up to 200 pounds, destined for undesirables like Saddam Hussein and North Korea. CREN-K’s own U-235 rods — utterly enticing dirty-bomb material — have developed a nasty habit of vanishing without a trace..."

Fuck.