I was concerned that my comments might be taken a little more strongly than intended.

"Nuke-grade lab" was a compliment to Oak Ridge (heck, they contributed to winning a war -- let alone trying to break free from foreign oil).

And, as a graduate from a technical university that both receives funding from corporate research as well as contributes to the overall body of global knowledge, I even encourage my company to fund university research.

I also acknowledged in the original post that reverse engineering goes on -- but I'm still personally off-put by the fact that it wasn't by manufacturers in the privacy of their own facilities at their own risk for intellectual property abuse -- but IMHO, this was an excellent report under sanction of Uncle Sam to a depth that those "mere mortal" manufacturers might not have access to.

Governments invest in their own "greater good" advancement all the time... (hmmm, which is a better example here... man on the moon or porn on the Internet?).

But I do want to be clear that I wasn't 'dissing' Oak Ridge or the expansion of greater global knowledge...