Wow! Plutonium-bearing fuel elements!
They cast an intense Cerenkov glow in the cooling basin water. Battelle-Northwest senior engineer Max Freshley makes a careful visual inspection of the experimental elements prior to their being returned to the PRTR for further irradiation.
"In the future, it will be pretty common to find downed unfamiliar flying machines in your yard, just as you find the occasional dead bird today." I never would have believed it 10 years ago.