History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

Nuclear History/Trivia

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Views: 40,076

Aug 12, 2005, 10:41
by Melrose

what plant is in this short feature?

Started by 30rem

Replies: 2
Views: 6,249

Mar 29, 2006, 10:07
by Already Gone

V site LANL

Started by alphadude

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Views: 9,455

Oct 19, 2006, 03:35
by Mike McFarlin

SCA Question

Started by asher

Replies: 5
Views: 11,545

Oct 12, 2005, 10:54
by shayne

How hot is fuel

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 15
Views: 10,767

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,857

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

Started by Bongopete

Replies: 1
Views: 6,665

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

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Replies: 0
Views: 4,977

May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 1
Views: 4,443

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."

Started by Cathy

Replies: 0
Views: 15,037

Jan 12, 2008, 11:13
by Cathy

Old Videos

Started by ddickey

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Views: 3,442

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

BWR History

Started by deaztrailnutz

Replies: 3
Views: 8,225

Feb 03, 2007, 07:20
by vikingfan

50 ways to save a millirem the video

Started by DJ@Retired

Replies: 13
Views: 25,407

Sep 03, 2010, 11:25
by thenukeman

Handford

Started by duke99301

Replies: 4
Views: 6,484

Jul 05, 2009, 12:11
by UncaBuffalo

Nifty Website With Info On Able And Baker

Started by Fermi2

Replies: 4
Views: 6,325

Dec 17, 2010, 08:56
by Laundry Man

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,903

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

NS Savannah

Started by GLW

Replies: 19
Views: 18,184

May 31, 2011, 08:35
by HydroDave63

North American Earthquake?

Started by GLW

Replies: 12
Views: 14,182

Mar 23, 2011, 12:26
by jjack50

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

Replies: 1
Views: 4,996

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

Dental Fillings (Activation)

Started by JIMBOMAFF

Replies: 2
Views: 6,535

Nov 15, 2005, 10:46
by duke99301

A1W

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Replies: 6
Views: 15,015

May 31, 2009, 10:29
by midwatchcowboy

Chelyabinsk-40

Started by kp88

Replies: 2
Views: 9,008

Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

Started by Ksheed

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Views: 6,083

Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

Started by Ksheed

Replies: 0
Views: 4,679

Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

San Onofre Construction Workers Sought for History Project

Started by Mack

Replies: 4
Views: 8,327

May 09, 2010, 11:20
by Mack

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,408

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,011

Sep 05, 2024, 10:23
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,520

Nov 22, 2016, 05:47
by Marlin

Elk River - Rural America's First Atomic Power Plant

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,508

Sep 27, 2024, 07:58
by peteshonkwiler

Did Chernobyl Create Mutant Animals?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,391

Aug 13, 2019, 06:27
by Bonds 25

The first homes on Mars may be alive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 302

Apr 03, 2026, 02:12
by Rennhack

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,028

Nov 24, 2024, 09:08
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,483

Jan 30, 2026, 09:00
by Marlin

Russia Has a Fatally Wounded Nuclear Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,058

Nov 23, 2016, 07:14
by Marlin

Kryptonite

Started by Marlin

Replies: 12
Views: 13,746

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

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,431

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

The Blue Peacock: The Chicken-Heated Nuclear Land Mine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,642

Oct 01, 2021, 01:47
by Marlin

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,476

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,306

Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
by Marlin

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Started by Marlin

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Views: 8,939

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,216

Mar 12, 2024, 07:20
by Marlin

Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,343

Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
by Marlin

Katie the Calutron Girl visits A.K. Bissel Park

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,337

Mar 30, 2024, 10:39
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,975

Mar 07, 2019, 10:39
by Bonds 25

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,933

Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
by Marlin

Fusion Energy Week begins today

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,004

May 06, 2025, 12:53
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,046

Jun 07, 2024, 06:24
by Marlin

Project 81 - An Almost Forgotten Standard Nuclear Plant Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,581

Apr 03, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

Three Mile Island -- Failure Of Science Or Spin?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,404

Mar 28, 2019, 11:00
by Bonds 25

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,028

Aug 15, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST RADIATION DETECTOR YOU ALREADY OWN

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,493

Sep 30, 2022, 10:07
by SloGlo

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,863

Mar 20, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

Why X-Rays Can’t Push Interstellar Sails

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,028

Jun 08, 2024, 02:23
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,511

Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,974

Jun 27, 2024, 09:38
by Marlin

Raising the Kursk

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,754

Jul 21, 2019, 10:46
by Marlin

Nuclear-powered concept cars from the Atomic Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,829

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: 4,610

Mar 28, 2024, 12:23
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,281

Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

The Real Father of the Nuclear Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,229

Mar 11, 2024, 12:38
by Marlin

Organic Cooled Reactors: Five Fast Facts!

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,652

Apr 17, 2025, 09:29
by Marlin

How Radiocarbon Dating Unlocks Ancient History

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,016

Oct 01, 2024, 05:49
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,283

Oct 04, 2023, 12:34
by Marlin

Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,076

Jul 07, 2018, 11:15
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,360

Nov 28, 2024, 12:57
by Marlin

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war honoured with prize

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,210

Oct 27, 2017, 12:10
by Marlin

Romance of Radium (1937)

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,801

Aug 20, 2014, 10:33
by Marlin

Eerie Cosmic-Ray 'Cavity' Found Lurking in Earth-Moon Space

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 301

Apr 04, 2026, 09:16
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,614

Aug 10, 2018, 05:16
by hamsamich

Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,423

Apr 06, 2020, 10:13
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,230

May 22, 2018, 08:53
by Marlin

Thorium. Is it the future of clean energy?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,835

Feb 02, 2020, 12:37
by Marlin

Remembering the Savannah River Plant

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,860

Dec 18, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,488

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

Throwback Thursday: The legend of SCRAM

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,001

Dec 05, 2024, 10:51
by Marlin

Nukemap

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 6,765

Jan 13, 2018, 11:31
by Rennhack

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,580

Jun 11, 2018, 02:12
by shehane

Image

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 2,901

Apr 02, 2020, 10:00
by peteshonkwiler

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,619

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,272

Sep 29, 2023, 07:56
by Marlin

There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,305

Mar 05, 2023, 02:25
by Marlin

A witness to atomic history

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,329

Dec 02, 2017, 09:30
by Marlin

Nuclear Rocket

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 7,042

Mar 02, 2007, 06:15
by Trinian23

Tsar Bomba: the Bomb Too Big to Use

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,028

Aug 17, 2017, 12:34
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,483

Apr 03, 2020, 12:38
by Marlin

Nukeworker magic eye

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,464

Oct 12, 2016, 05:19
by Rennhack

Nuclear Energy for Puerto Rico

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,153

Sep 19, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,980

Jul 02, 2024, 11:05
by Marlin

High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 5,847

Jul 27, 2019, 10:19
by Marlin

Scientists/Discoveries

Started by Marlin

Replies: 12
Views: 18,738

Oct 18, 2014, 07:26
by sderyke2002

The Most Toxic Tourist Attraction in the World

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,372

Mar 12, 2023, 07:14
by Marlin

The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,558

Sep 29, 2025, 07:04
by Marlin

The origins of The Reactor Safety Study

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,011

Sep 24, 2024, 10:34
by Marlin

The last days of Hallam

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,808

Oct 24, 2025, 09:46
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,338

Sep 23, 2022, 10:11
by Marlin

Reactor cores/piles/design

Started by Marlin

Replies: 10
Views: 15,080

Jan 09, 2011, 06:27
by co60slr

50 years ago a nuclear bomb was detonated under the Western Slope

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,185

Sep 11, 2019, 11:24
by Marlin

Instrumentation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 7,049

Sep 15, 2006, 11:58
by SloGlo

Startling Facts About the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,543

Aug 08, 2019, 06:57
by RDTroja

How The Russian Navy Disposed Of 100 Nuclear Submarines | The End Of Red October

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,478

Nov 02, 2022, 10:39
by Marlin

Tree-rings reveal secret clocks

Started by Marlin

Replies: 13
Views: 8,947

Aug 18, 2016, 12:33
by Marlin

N.S. Savannah and the American Nuclear Society

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,059

Sep 13, 2024, 11:35
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,327

Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
by Mounder

Exposure/dose

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 18,009

Aug 15, 2007, 11:26
by Chimera

What Ten Radioactive Elements Have the Longest Half-Lives?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 7,691

Jan 18, 2016, 10:51
by SloGlo

Radiation control pratices

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Replies: 6
Views: 13,555

Oct 06, 2006, 12:48
by SloGlo

Strange Life Forms Are Growing in an Abandoned Uranium Mine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,296

Feb 04, 2023, 12:23
by Marlin

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,726

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: 2,243

Oct 09, 2025, 11:04
by Marlin

Inside the Biggest Nuclear Explosion in History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,346

Aug 23, 2025, 10:31
by Marlin

Accelerator disabled

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,449

Jan 29, 2007, 01:00
by Marlin

General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,512

Apr 03, 2025, 10:20
by Marlin

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,485

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 7,301

Feb 14, 2016, 09:43
by GLW

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,459

Nov 24, 2020, 11:58
by Marlin

We Are East Idaho: Arco

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,619

Mar 25, 2019, 06:39
by Marlin

The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,388

Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
by Marlin

Did you know?

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 29
Views: 56,541

Apr 02, 2011, 06:18
by HydroDave63

WE CHOOSE TO NUKE THE MOON

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,547

Sep 14, 2021, 06:47
by GLW

Why didn’t gamma radiation prevent life on Earth from starting?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,329

Dec 06, 2023, 01:39
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,642

Jul 15, 2021, 11:15
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,255

Oct 22, 2023, 09:15
by Marlin

The SLAM Missile Was a Flying Chernobyl

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Replies: 0
Views: 4,270

Sep 10, 2014, 12:00
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,212

Feb 29, 2024, 04:42
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,605

Mar 10, 2019, 04:27
by GLW

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

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,474

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

Physicists’ Early Dreams of Nuclear Powered Spaceflight

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,659

Jul 19, 2021, 02:21
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,424

Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
by Marlin

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,699

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

Nuclear History In focus: The Three Mile Island special report

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,523

Mar 27, 2025, 09:44
by Marlin

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,066

Dec 10, 2024, 10:24
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,016

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,397

Mar 06, 2019, 12:43
by RRhoads

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,760

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

The design and legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,222

Nov 22, 2023, 09:46
by Marlin

CP-1 at 80: The events of December 2, 1942

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,427

Dec 02, 2022, 10:29
by Marlin

Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear Radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,668

Jan 21, 2020, 05:59
by SloGlo

First Fifty Years of HP

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 8,201

Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,510

Oct 04, 2005, 10:35
by Marlin

The Hanford B Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,271

Feb 17, 2023, 10:27
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 273

Mar 13, 2026, 07:17
by Marlin

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,114

Dec 12, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

ReActor House

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,366

Oct 28, 2016, 10:56
by SloGlo

Radioactive Boyscout

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 9,505

Jan 06, 2007, 12:59
by thenuttyneutron

Manmade elements

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 5,841

Mar 20, 2009, 10:20
by Marlin

Showdown at Shoreham

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,957

Sep 03, 2024, 10:13
by Marlin

Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 326

Mar 17, 2026, 10:44
by Marlin

2 killed when vehicle hits West End guard shack in Oak Ridge

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,320

May 08, 2023, 12:56
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,767

Jan 05, 2026, 07:49
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,255

Feb 25, 2023, 11:16
by Marlin