History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

Nuclear History/Trivia

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Views: 39,880

Aug 12, 2005, 10:41
by Melrose

what plant is in this short feature?

Started by 30rem

Replies: 2
Views: 6,221

Mar 29, 2006, 10:07
by Already Gone

V site LANL

Started by alphadude

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Views: 9,431

Oct 19, 2006, 03:35
by Mike McFarlin

SCA Question

Started by asher

Replies: 5
Views: 11,489

Oct 12, 2005, 10:54
by shayne

How hot is fuel

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 15
Views: 10,631

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,832

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

Started by Bongopete

Replies: 1
Views: 6,627

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

Started by Captain America

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Views: 4,954

May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 1
Views: 4,412

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."

Started by Cathy

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Views: 14,997

Jan 12, 2008, 11:13
by Cathy

Old Videos

Started by ddickey

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Views: 3,423

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

BWR History

Started by deaztrailnutz

Replies: 3
Views: 8,193

Feb 03, 2007, 07:20
by vikingfan

50 ways to save a millirem the video

Started by DJ@Retired

Replies: 13
Views: 25,322

Sep 03, 2010, 11:25
by thenukeman

Handford

Started by duke99301

Replies: 4
Views: 6,450

Jul 05, 2009, 12:11
by UncaBuffalo

Nifty Website With Info On Able And Baker

Started by Fermi2

Replies: 4
Views: 6,284

Dec 17, 2010, 08:56
by Laundry Man

North American Earthquake?

Started by GLW

Replies: 12
Views: 14,090

Mar 23, 2011, 12:26
by jjack50

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,829

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

NS Savannah

Started by GLW

Replies: 19
Views: 18,072

May 31, 2011, 08:35
by HydroDave63

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

Replies: 1
Views: 4,975

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

Dental Fillings (Activation)

Started by JIMBOMAFF

Replies: 2
Views: 6,501

Nov 15, 2005, 10:46
by duke99301

Chelyabinsk-40

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Replies: 2
Views: 8,961

Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

A1W

Started by kp88

Replies: 6
Views: 14,964

May 31, 2009, 10:29
by midwatchcowboy

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

Started by Ksheed

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Views: 6,055

Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

Started by Ksheed

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Views: 4,655

Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

San Onofre Construction Workers Sought for History Project

Started by Mack

Replies: 4
Views: 8,285

May 09, 2010, 11:20
by Mack

The Real Father of the Nuclear Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,201

Mar 11, 2024, 12:38
by Marlin

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,030

Dec 10, 2024, 10:24
by Marlin

First Man-made Object in Space – A Manhole Cover?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 2,991

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,361

Mar 06, 2019, 12:43
by RRhoads

Last Surviving Crew Member Has 'No Regrets' About Bombing Hiroshima

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,591

Aug 10, 2018, 05:16
by hamsamich

The design and legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,194

Nov 22, 2023, 09:46
by Marlin

This Soviet Submarine Narrowly Avoided Nuclear Disaster: Here's What Went Wrong

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,018

Jun 07, 2024, 06:24
by Marlin

Atomic Veterans: The Troops America Used As Nuclear Guinea Pigs Following World

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,262

Oct 04, 2023, 12:34
by Marlin

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Views: 2,093

Dec 12, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Views: 2,317

Feb 23, 2024, 09:42
by Marlin

Camp Century: Look back at Cold war history frozen in time

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Views: 2,332

Nov 28, 2024, 12:57
by Marlin

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war honoured with prize

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,185

Oct 27, 2017, 12:10
by Marlin

Shipyard, Naval Undersea Museum partner to preserve piece of historic submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,557

Jun 11, 2018, 02:12
by shehane

Thorium. Is it the future of clean energy?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,796

Feb 02, 2020, 12:37
by Marlin

Radioactive Boyscout

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 9,464

Jan 06, 2007, 12:59
by thenuttyneutron

Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station: Not the reactor you may be thinking of

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Replies: 0
Views: 1,862

Mar 18, 2025, 09:15
by Marlin

The first homes on Mars may be alive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 227

Apr 03, 2026, 02:12
by Rennhack

High level burial

Started by Marlin

Replies: 17
Views: 17,908

Feb 26, 2007, 02:35
by Marlin

The Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring: A 1947 Kix Cereal Sensation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,731

Jan 05, 2026, 07:49
by Marlin

Throwback Thursday: The legend of SCRAM

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,974

Dec 05, 2024, 10:51
by Marlin

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,379

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,060

Jul 07, 2018, 11:15
by Marlin

The Disastrous Tale of the First Underwater Nuclear Test in U.S. History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,496

Nov 22, 2016, 05:47
by Marlin

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,851

May 18, 2018, 10:05
by Marlin

Tsar Bomba: the Bomb Too Big to Use

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,002

Aug 17, 2017, 12:34
by Marlin

Did Chernobyl Create Mutant Animals?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,362

Aug 13, 2019, 06:27
by Bonds 25

Restoration of the NRX Reactor: The First Meltdown (1959)

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Views: 1,999

Nov 24, 2024, 09:08
by Marlin

101-year-old atomic bomb worker returns to Oak Ridge, where she helped make hist

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,410

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

Russia Has a Fatally Wounded Nuclear Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,029

Nov 23, 2016, 07:14
by Marlin

The Dragon Bites Twice: “Tickling the Tail of the Dragon”

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,195

May 22, 2018, 08:53
by Marlin

Nukeworker magic eye

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,431

Oct 12, 2016, 05:19
by Rennhack

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,912

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

Under a fermium sky

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,643

Jun 28, 2017, 08:01
by Chimera

High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Replies: 0
Views: 5,819

Jul 27, 2019, 10:19
by Marlin

Reactor cores/piles/design

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Replies: 10
Views: 15,003

Jan 09, 2011, 06:27
by co60slr

The world watched as Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the U.K.’s Atomic Age

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Views: 2,315

Sep 23, 2022, 10:11
by Marlin

The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,532

Sep 29, 2025, 07:04
by Marlin

Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,323

Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
by Marlin

The Largest Nuclear Test in Outer Space Had Startling Effects on Hawaii

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,360

Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
by Marlin

Startling Facts About the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,513

Aug 08, 2019, 06:57
by RDTroja

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,951

Jun 27, 2024, 09:38
by Marlin

The legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,210

Feb 03, 2023, 12:11
by Marlin

Exposure/dose

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 17,896

Aug 15, 2007, 11:26
by Chimera

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,828

Mar 20, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

]How powerful of a nuclear bomb could we make?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,460

Aug 22, 2022, 12:06
by Marlin

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska—on purpose

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,010

Aug 15, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

N.S. Savannah and the American Nuclear Society

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,038

Sep 13, 2024, 11:35
by Marlin

Raising the Kursk

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,726

Jul 21, 2019, 10:46
by Marlin

Scientists/Discoveries

Started by Marlin

Replies: 12
Views: 18,619

Oct 18, 2014, 07:26
by sderyke2002

From terrestrial to celestial: NETS connects nuclear professionals with space mi

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,489

Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
by Marlin

Japan's Atomic Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 18,103

Mar 08, 2006, 12:54
by LaFeet

Inside the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,321

Aug 23, 2025, 10:31
by Marlin

Nuclear-powered concept cars from the Atomic Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,772

Jul 20, 2014, 10:08
by SloGlo

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on s

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,575

Mar 28, 2024, 12:23
by Marlin

Did your computer crash? It might have been a cosmic ray

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,253

Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

WE CHOOSE TO NUKE THE MOON

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,517

Sep 14, 2021, 06:47
by GLW

Organic Cooled Reactors: Five Fast Facts!

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,634

Apr 17, 2025, 09:29
by Marlin

Instrumentation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 7,012

Sep 15, 2006, 11:58
by SloGlo

General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,491

Apr 03, 2025, 10:20
by Marlin

Did you know?

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 29
Views: 56,428

Apr 02, 2011, 06:18
by HydroDave63

The U.S. Military and Russia Both Tried to Make a Nuclear-Powered Plane

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,437

Nov 24, 2020, 11:58
by Marlin

Romance of Radium (1937)

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,768

Aug 20, 2014, 10:33
by Marlin

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,567

Aug 10, 2025, 01:14
by Marlin

Visitors tour New Mexico atomic site in likely record attendance fueled by 'Oppe

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,236

Oct 22, 2023, 09:15
by Marlin

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,591

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,701

Aug 14, 2015, 10:35
by Marlin

Physicists’ Early Dreams of Nuclear Powered Spaceflight

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,635

Jul 19, 2021, 02:21
by Marlin

Nukemap

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 6,694

Jan 13, 2018, 11:31
by Rennhack

The Lithium Blues

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,526

Mar 18, 2014, 10:52
by BetaAnt

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,455

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab....... most deadliest toy ever made..

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,572

Mar 10, 2019, 04:27
by GLW

Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,255

Sep 29, 2023, 07:56
by Marlin

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,458

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

Image

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 2,871

Apr 02, 2020, 10:00
by peteshonkwiler

World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Created Rare, Otherworldly Crystal

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,475

Jul 13, 2021, 04:37
by Marlin

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,726

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,282

Mar 05, 2023, 02:25
by Marlin

Nuclear Rocket

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 7,007

Mar 02, 2007, 06:15
by Trinian23

Nuclear Energy for Puerto Rico

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,121

Sep 19, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

Carbon-14 Spiked Worldwide Over 1200 Years Ago, And The Sun Is To Blame

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,451

Apr 03, 2020, 12:38
by Marlin

Tour the first nuclear reactor to produce electricity using atomic power in Arco

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,620

Jul 15, 2021, 11:15
by Marlin

Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear Radiation

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,642

Jan 21, 2020, 05:59
by SloGlo

The Most Toxic Tourist Attraction in the World

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Views: 2,349

Mar 12, 2023, 07:14
by Marlin

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,629

Oct 01, 2020, 12:01
by Marlin

The Hanford B Reactor

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Views: 2,250

Feb 17, 2023, 10:27
by Marlin

Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission

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Views: 292

Mar 17, 2026, 10:44
by Marlin

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,984

Sep 05, 2024, 10:23
by Marlin

ReActor House

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,343

Oct 28, 2016, 10:56
by SloGlo

The origins of The Reactor Safety Study

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Replies: 0
Views: 1,986

Sep 24, 2024, 10:34
by Marlin

70th Anniversary of Atoms for Peace Speech

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Views: 2,167

Sep 29, 2023, 02:06
by Marlin

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,233

Feb 25, 2023, 11:16
by Marlin

Radiation control pratices

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Replies: 6
Views: 13,531

Oct 06, 2006, 12:48
by SloGlo

Disney World should have gone nuclear

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,470

Nov 25, 2024, 12:04
by Bonds 25

The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit,

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,450

Jan 30, 2026, 09:00
by Marlin

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,297

Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
by Mounder

The Peach Bottom-1 HTGR

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,434

Aug 15, 2024, 10:46
by Marlin

Tree-rings reveal secret clocks

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Replies: 13
Views: 8,853

Aug 18, 2016, 12:33
by Marlin

First Fifty Years of HP

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Replies: 1
Views: 8,173

Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

Strange Life Forms Are Growing in an Abandoned Uranium Mine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,275

Feb 04, 2023, 12:23
by Marlin

‘My God what have we done’: Enola Gay pilot’s combat notebook is for sale

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 239

Mar 13, 2026, 07:17
by Marlin

What Ten Radioactive Elements Have the Longest Half-Lives?

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Replies: 5
Views: 7,633

Jan 18, 2016, 10:51
by SloGlo

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,704

Mar 21, 2019, 04:46
by Marlin

The Peculiar Story Of Anatoli Bugorski, The Man Who Stuck His Head In A Proton A

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,217

Oct 09, 2025, 11:04
by Marlin

Showdown at Shoreham

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Replies: 0
Views: 1,930

Sep 03, 2024, 10:13
by Marlin

Kryptonite

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Replies: 12
Views: 13,661

Mar 13, 2009, 09:47
by wlrun3@aol.com

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 7,256

Feb 14, 2016, 09:43
by GLW

Celebrating INL’s legacy of innovation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,652

Dec 23, 2025, 11:35
by Marlin

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,449

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,912

Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
by Marlin

That time the US dropped an atomic bomb on a fleet of 95 ships

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,945

Mar 07, 2019, 10:39
by Bonds 25

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,188

Mar 12, 2024, 07:20
by Marlin

We Are East Idaho: Arco

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,595

Mar 25, 2019, 06:39
by Marlin

The Nuclear Canal

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,734

Jun 14, 2016, 09:03
by Marlin

Project 81 - An Almost Forgotten Standard Nuclear Plant Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,556

Apr 03, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,673

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

Who was Valery Legasov, the Soviet scientist that saved the world from Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 5,610

Jun 06, 2019, 01:14
by GLW

Why X-Rays Can’t Push Interstellar Sails

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,000

Jun 08, 2024, 02:23
by Marlin

A Nuclear Tank?! In the 1950s, It Almost Happened

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,450

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

The U.S. Once Wanted To Use Nuclear Bombs as a Construction Tool

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,392

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,174

Feb 29, 2024, 04:42
by Marlin

PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST RADIATION DETECTOR YOU ALREADY OWN

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,478

Sep 30, 2022, 10:07
by SloGlo

Nuclear History In focus: The Three Mile Island special report

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,502

Mar 27, 2025, 09:44
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,278

Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
by Marlin

Why Scientists Haven't Solved The Mystery Of The Oh-My-God Particle

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,400

Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,046

May 24, 2024, 11:20
by Marlin