History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

Nuclear History/Trivia

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Aug 12, 2005, 10:41
by Melrose

what plant is in this short feature?

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Views: 6,211

Mar 29, 2006, 10:07
by Already Gone

V site LANL

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Views: 9,418

Oct 19, 2006, 03:35
by Mike McFarlin

SCA Question

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Views: 11,473

Oct 12, 2005, 10:54
by shayne

Bernie Pad

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Views: 4,815

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

How hot is fuel

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Replies: 15
Views: 10,591

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

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Views: 6,603

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

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Views: 4,939

May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

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Views: 4,396

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."

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Views: 14,972

Jan 12, 2008, 11:13
by Cathy

Old Videos

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Views: 3,406

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

BWR History

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Replies: 3
Views: 8,186

Feb 03, 2007, 07:20
by vikingfan

50 ways to save a millirem the video

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Replies: 13
Views: 25,304

Sep 03, 2010, 11:25
by thenukeman

Handford

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Views: 6,436

Jul 05, 2009, 12:11
by UncaBuffalo

Nifty Website With Info On Able And Baker

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Views: 6,260

Dec 17, 2010, 08:56
by Laundry Man

North American Earthquake?

Started by GLW

Replies: 12
Views: 14,041

Mar 23, 2011, 12:26
by jjack50

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,784

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

NS Savannah

Started by GLW

Replies: 19
Views: 18,026

May 31, 2011, 08:35
by HydroDave63

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

Replies: 1
Views: 4,956

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

Dental Fillings (Activation)

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Replies: 2
Views: 6,493

Nov 15, 2005, 10:46
by duke99301

Chelyabinsk-40

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Views: 8,935

Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

A1W

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Replies: 6
Views: 14,937

May 31, 2009, 10:29
by midwatchcowboy

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

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Views: 6,035

Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

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Views: 4,637

Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

San Onofre Construction Workers Sought for History Project

Started by Mack

Replies: 4
Views: 8,259

May 09, 2010, 11:20
by Mack

Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment

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Views: 1,979

Oct 07, 2024, 12:42
by Marlin

Oak Ridge: X-10 Graphite Reactor Virtual Tour

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Views: 2,405

Nov 23, 2025, 09:32
by Marlin

Beach Sands Near Hiroshima Are Still Packed With 1945 Nuclear Fallout Debris

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,682

May 14, 2019, 11:15
by Marlin

What It's Like to Actually See an Atomic Explosion

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,428

Apr 18, 2016, 09:54
by Marlin

Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes

Started by Marlin

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Replies: 49
Views: 29,135

Jan 28, 2019, 06:43
by GLW

The secret orders for a courier transporting Uranium 235 from Y-12 to Chicago du

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,375

Jul 24, 2025, 03:29
by Marlin

NASA’s flagship mission to Europa has a problem: Vulnerability to radiation

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,146

Jul 15, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

5 Incredible Facts About the Atom Bomb

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,384

May 31, 2021, 07:23
by Marlin

Jimmy Carter: America’s first nuclear president

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,890

Feb 05, 2025, 12:49
by Marlin

How America Almost Built the Scariest of Weapons: A Nuclear-Powered Tank

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Views: 21,893

Jan 05, 2017, 10:56
by Marlin

These atomic-powered airships never made it off the drawing board

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Views: 2,660

Apr 28, 2019, 10:55
by Marlin

The Fulton Station project: Inflation kept this HTGR from seeing the light of da

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Views: 2,127

Oct 24, 2024, 02:27
by Mounder

You (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 8,114

Mar 31, 2016, 12:48
by GLW

Taiwan Hunts for Radioactive Apartments

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Views: 2,543

Jan 20, 2022, 01:22
by Marlin

Trinity Test at 80: American Nuclear Society CEO Craig Piercy reflects on the Ma

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Views: 1,226

Jul 16, 2025, 10:07
by Marlin

Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients?

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Views: 2,429

Nov 05, 2025, 06:29
by Marlin

Hiroshima survivor

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Replies: 9
Views: 19,951

Dec 16, 2007, 01:41
by Marlin

Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,556

Jun 07, 2021, 12:23
by Marlin

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,081

Apr 03, 2019, 12:31
by GLW

Radioactive food

Started by Marlin

Replies: 13
Views: 14,736

May 29, 2007, 04:36
by LaFeet

Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,162

Jan 26, 2024, 02:17
by Marlin

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,459

Dec 10, 2021, 02:11
by Marlin

Atoms For Peace - 1950's Atomic Energy Studies / Educational Documentary

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,928

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

A Dark Matter Detector Just Recorded One of The Rarest Events Known to Science

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,606

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

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Views: 2,639

May 25, 2021, 03:12
by Marlin

Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex

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Views: 1,621

Feb 04, 2025, 09:09
by Marlin

Nukes Couldn’t Kill Her: Wreck of Battleship USS Nevada Discovered on Ocean Floo

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Views: 1,861

Nov 04, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

The Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor

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Views: 2,350

Dec 22, 2023, 09:30
by Marlin

"Fairy Ring"

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 8,086

Feb 05, 2007, 03:14
by Marlin

Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba'

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,763

Sep 02, 2020, 10:39
by Marlin

When Televisions Were Radioactive

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,650

Sep 24, 2018, 10:42
by Marlin

Rickover was a D.O.P.E. ?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 6,405

Jun 18, 2011, 09:34
by hamsamich

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

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Views: 2,335

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

Cosmic rays streamed through Earth’s atmosphere 41,000 years ago

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Views: 2,419

Apr 22, 2024, 12:50
by Marlin

Nuclear Bombs Fell on North Carolina 64 Years Ago. How Disaster Was Narrowly Ave

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,937

Jan 27, 2025, 05:01
by Marlin

391-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima Bombings and Keeps Growing

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,711

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery

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Views: 2,378

Dec 12, 2023, 05:53
by Marlin

X-rays

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Replies: 4
Views: 7,054

Jan 27, 2007, 08:15
by SloGlo

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,647

Aug 07, 2020, 02:58
by Marlin

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,481

May 18, 2021, 12:05
by Marlin

The US Military Once Detonated a Nuclear Bomb Directly Above the Heads of 5 Offi

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,254

Jul 31, 2023, 12:58
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,317

Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
by Mounder

New Zealand mayor goes nuclear after Trump claims US 'split the atom'

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,678

Jan 22, 2025, 04:00
by Marlin

After 70 years, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s legacy is being rewritten

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,550

Dec 22, 2022, 02:17
by Marlin

Astounding Science Fiction

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,166

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

Nuclear Football

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 7,407

Jan 24, 2007, 07:47
by SloGlo

7 Moments in December that Changed Nuclear Energy History

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Views: 2,296

Dec 20, 2023, 03:50
by Marlin

'Nuclear battlefield' revealed as scientists map Bikini Atoll test craters

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Views: 2,323

Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
by Marlin

Physicists Propose That the Universe Is Filled With Tiny, Natural Atomic Bombs

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Views: 2,752

Mar 07, 2021, 12:00
by Marlin

Unique Soviet Monster Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Blast Has Roared Back T

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,863

Jan 24, 2025, 05:12
by Marlin

Regulatory history of non-light-water reactors in the U.S.

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Views: 1,989

Jul 25, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

Blue Peacock

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 6,666

Jan 26, 2007, 02:07
by SloGlo

The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,994

May 06, 2017, 05:19
by Marlin

Project Rover: The original nuclear-powered rocket program

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,293

Jan 13, 2023, 09:25
by Marlin

Today in History - December 2 Nuclear Fission

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Views: 2,409

Dec 02, 2019, 01:45
by Marlin

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

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Views: 2,218

Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
by Marlin

Living nuclear component.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 23
Views: 16,564

Feb 07, 2009, 10:42
by Marlin

“Nuclear geyser” may be origin of life

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,220

Apr 18, 2018, 04:49
by atomicarcheologist

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

Started by Marlin

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Views: 6,933

May 07, 2024, 07:14
by Marlin

Thorium welding rod exposure

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 13,354

Feb 15, 2008, 06:08
by atomicarcheologist

Cold War Nuclear Testing May Have Caused Extra Rain Around the World

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,425

May 14, 2020, 11:55
by Marlin

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,484

Dec 20, 2022, 07:42
by Mounder

Demon core video

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,958

Oct 06, 2019, 12:00
by Marlin

America’s Atomic Veterans, hidden by secrets, were forgotten for 50 years

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,125

Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

The Strange Glass Born in Nuclear Explosions

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,654

Apr 19, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

How Scientific Chance and a Little Luck Helped Usher in the Nuclear Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,040

Jan 30, 2019, 12:52
by Chimera

The Day the U.S. Lost Hydrogen Bombs in Spain

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Replies: 1
Views: 5,373

Feb 06, 2015, 02:55
by Marlin

Water Boiler Reactor

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,079

May 09, 2024, 01:42
by Marlin

48 Hours (November 17, 1988) Fernald

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Replies: 3
Views: 2,867

Dec 06, 2022, 07:26
by Mounder

On Anniversary of Three Mile Island Crisis

Started by Marlin

Replies: 8
Views: 6,018

Mar 30, 2017, 10:45
by Marlin

The legacy of the National Reactor Testing Station, today’s Idaho National Labor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,098

Jul 24, 2025, 11:59
by Mounder

Fast burst reactors: A historical primer

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,988

Jul 15, 2024, 10:04
by Marlin

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,709

Nov 08, 2019, 04:03
by Marlin

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

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Views: 3,014

Nov 27, 2018, 06:26
by Marlin

CP-1 at 80: The legacy of CP-1—and the scientist who created its neutron activit

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,393

Dec 16, 2022, 12:32
by Marlin

Radioactive Spark Plugs (ca. 1940s)

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,529

Jul 13, 2024, 06:10
by Marlin

The Almost Nuclear Holocaust in North Carolina

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Views: 4,299

Jan 24, 2015, 11:00
by Marlin

How To Use Fusion To Get To Proxima Centauri's Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

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Views: 1,701

Jul 07, 2025, 07:06
by Marlin

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

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Views: 9,332

Oct 23, 2013, 08:38
by Marlin

How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case

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Views: 2,235

Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
by Marlin

Why is Jimmy Carter trending on Twitter?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,463

Dec 17, 2021, 01:36
by Marlin

AN ALTERNATIVE REACTOR

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Views: 3,064

May 09, 2018, 12:14
by Marlin

No ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb’s fallout

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,324

Aug 05, 2023, 10:00
by Marlin

Piqua organic-cooled reactor in photo and film

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,278

Nov 05, 2025, 09:57
by Mounder

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

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Views: 5,145

Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,375

Jan 17, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

Physicists re-create forgotten experiment observing fusion

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Replies: 0
Views: 1,096

Jun 27, 2025, 05:51
by Marlin

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,804

Oct 01, 2018, 08:07
by Mounder

How Are Universal Ionizing Radiation Symbols Used Around the World?

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Views: 2,443

Dec 22, 2023, 02:21
by Marlin

Vaping Regularly May Expose Teens to More Toxic Lead, Uranium, Study Says

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,175

Apr 30, 2024, 10:45
by Marlin

The Navy Nearly Built A Nuclear Armed “Super Sidewinder” Air-To-Air Missile

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Views: 1,701

Feb 03, 2025, 03:55
by Marlin

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,215

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

Admiral Rickover's Gamble

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Views: 4,077

Oct 10, 2014, 04:08
by Marlin

October 11, 1954: The founding of ANS

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Views: 1,832

Oct 15, 2024, 10:35
by Marlin

The American reactor that was closed by fake news

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Views: 2,235

Jan 28, 2024, 01:18
by Marlin

MOVED: Edward Snowden

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Views: 3,374

Aug 10, 2013, 09:05
by Marlin

Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator

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Views: 1,358

Jul 05, 2025, 05:53
by Marlin

Does Oak Ridge make the region a juicy target for a nuclear attack?

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Replies: 3
Views: 2,757

Jul 31, 2023, 07:09
by Marlin

How the OJ Simpson Verdict Overshadowed a Watershed Moment for Atomic Veterans

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,465

Apr 15, 2024, 11:00
by Marlin

Operation Plumbbob And The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,832

Nov 10, 2014, 11:38
by RFaunt

First Reactor

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Replies: 3
Views: 3,888

Apr 29, 2018, 01:03
by TVA

Nuclear fracking

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 17,687

Aug 28, 2013, 03:49
by retired nuke

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,689

Aug 05, 2020, 11:35
by Marlin

TVA Prepares to Write Final Nuclear Chapters

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,812

Oct 15, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

USS TRITON 1ST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH UNDERWATER

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,768

Jun 19, 2017, 06:57
by bsdnuke

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,132

Jul 30, 2024, 09:46
by Marlin

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,505

May 02, 2016, 11:47
by Marlin

NB-36 CRUSADER: AMERICA’S MASSIVE NUCLEAR-POWERED BOMBER

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,912

May 14, 2021, 02:19
by Mounder

Idaho is home to many great nuclear achievements — and a deadly disaster during

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,202

Jul 13, 2023, 11:09
by Marlin

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,420

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

The Only Full Scale Test of a Nuclear Missile Was 57 Years Ago

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,093

May 11, 2020, 10:56
by peteshonkwiler

Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,963

Oct 14, 2024, 10:18
by Marlin

Energy Information Administration

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Views: 2,383

Nov 25, 2025, 10:13
by Marlin

Matter of Risk (Chapter 5 excerpt about Chernobyl)

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,680

Apr 25, 2018, 11:59
by Marlin

Disappearing dad

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,488

Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,189

Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
by Marlin

Bacteria: radioactive elements replace essential rare earth metals

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,340

May 17, 2023, 03:18
by Marlin

Tracking the journey of a uranium cube

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,528

May 03, 2019, 10:17
by Marlin

Scientists may have finally 'seen' dark matter for the 1st time

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,396

Nov 26, 2025, 10:49
by Marlin

The Curious History of Neutrinos and Nuclear Reactors

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,190

Oct 03, 2024, 10:32
by Marlin

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

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Views: 2,466

May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

Secret Atomic Role of WWII-Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,245

May 02, 2016, 11:35
by Marlin

Crisis at Three Mile Island

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Replies: 19
Views: 9,211

Apr 01, 2018, 01:43
by TVA

Balloon in cooling tower

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Views: 2,151

Jun 22, 2023, 12:44
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

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Views: 2,594

Feb 11, 2022, 11:19
by Marlin