You should rest easy knowing that Fermi is not, nor has ever been, a nuclear research facility. Robert Wilson, the founding director, worked on the Manhattan project. He left that behind to dedicate his life to peaceful research.
Actually this reminds me of something I viewed on the science and discovery channel one day recently. Some researchers are trying to control lighting strikes! So far, by shooting a cetain gaseous combination into the sky they have had some success in luring the lighting to strike through the path of the gas allowing them to cause the lighting to hit where they want. Very primitive stages, but its main use could be for harnessing the power of lightening for energy purposes and also for military purposes.
Pipe hidden in auger hole.
Lightning detector controls rocket launch.
Shaped charge blows the soil off the top of the tube before launch
Rocket trails copper wire, earthed to metal drainpipe
Gets up to a few hundred feet
ZOT !
Lightning vapourises the copper wire and then multiple strikes up and down the metallised conductive path.
If the FoG is buried close to your target, it increases the chance of a strike.
I've read enough of the Wizard of ID to know lightning always goes Zot
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