History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

Nuclear History/Trivia

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Replies: 11
Views: 40,076

Aug 12, 2005, 10:41
by Melrose

The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,388

Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
by Marlin

"Fairy Ring"

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 8,151

Feb 05, 2007, 03:14
by Marlin

"Rockoon"

Started by Mike McFarlin

Replies: 5
Views: 9,562

Apr 13, 2011, 06:12
by Mike McFarlin

"Trench 94"

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 19
Views: 28,915

Dec 04, 2011, 10:46
by wlrun3@aol.com

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,360

Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
by Marlin

.3 dac fraction

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 2
Views: 8,981

May 28, 2009, 12:46
by G-reg

10 everyday products that were radioactive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,475

Feb 14, 2018, 12:05
by Marlin

10 Intriguing Facts About the World's First Nuclear Chain Reaction

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,645

Dec 18, 2019, 04:49
by Marlin

100cm2

Started by mostlyharmless

Replies: 8
Views: 9,828

Jun 03, 2009, 09:11
by SloGlo

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

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

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,750

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

48 Hours (November 17, 1988) Fernald

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Replies: 3
Views: 2,940

Dec 06, 2022, 07:26
by Mounder

5 Incredible Facts About the Atom Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,437

May 31, 2021, 07:23
by Marlin

50 ways to save a millirem the video

Started by DJ@Retired

Replies: 13
Views: 25,407

Sep 03, 2010, 11:25
by thenukeman

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

62 years ago today: The USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole

Started by Marlin

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Views: 231

Apr 28, 2026, 10:24
by Marlin

7 Moments in December that Changed Nuclear Energy History

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,352

Dec 20, 2023, 03:50
by Marlin

70th Anniversary of Atoms for Peace Speech

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,186

Sep 29, 2023, 02:06
by Marlin

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,465

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

9 nuclear inventions the Atomic Age nearly unleashed

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,708

Oct 29, 2025, 11:31
by Marlin

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,448

Dec 17, 2019, 01:30
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,639

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,474

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,801

Mar 02, 2014, 03:33
by retired nuke

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,256

Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
by Marlin

A witness to atomic history

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,329

Dec 02, 2017, 09:30
by Marlin

A1W

Started by kp88

Replies: 6
Views: 15,015

May 31, 2009, 10:29
by midwatchcowboy

Accelerator disabled

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,449

Jan 29, 2007, 01:00
by Marlin

Admiral Rickover's Gamble

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,120

Oct 10, 2014, 04:08
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,602

Dec 22, 2022, 02:17
by Marlin

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,260

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,619

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

american electricity production

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 8
Views: 9,164

Jul 16, 2009, 04:43
by SSBN640Blue

American Nuclear Power Plants

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 16
Views: 50,713

Jun 05, 2008, 02:57
by wlrun3@aol.com

american nuclear power plants

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

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Replies: 48
Views: 51,965

May 18, 2013, 03:12
by Wlrun3

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,169

Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

AN ALTERNATIVE REACTOR

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,102

May 09, 2018, 12:14
by Marlin

An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 3,115

Jan 31, 2023, 12:39
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,068

May 24, 2024, 11:20
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,933

Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
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

Astounding Science Fiction

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,214

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,283

Oct 04, 2023, 12:34
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,972

May 07, 2024, 07:14
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,216

Mar 12, 2024, 07:20
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,970

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

Aurora colors: What causes them and why do they vary?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,218

May 15, 2024, 10:57
by Marlin

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,496

May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

B&W PWR

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 10
Views: 11,920

Apr 06, 2012, 08:56
by Fermi2

Bacteria: radioactive elements replace essential rare earth metals

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,381

May 17, 2023, 03:18
by Marlin

Balloon in cooling tower

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,198

Jun 22, 2023, 12:44
by Marlin

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,476

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,721

May 14, 2019, 11:15
by Marlin

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,857

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,851

Oct 01, 2018, 08:07
by Mounder

Blue Peacock

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 6,709

Jan 26, 2007, 02:07
by SloGlo

Books

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

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Replies: 35
Views: 37,578

Nov 20, 2011, 01:41
by wlrun3@aol.com

Both History and Trivia

Started by mjd

Replies: 0
Views: 2,484

Apr 19, 2020, 10:52
by mjd

Breaker to Breaker

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 11
Views: 19,707

May 28, 2008, 01:21
by matthew.b

BWR

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

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Replies: 30
Views: 29,378

Feb 06, 2012, 01:45
by rlbinc

BWR History

Started by deaztrailnutz

Replies: 3
Views: 8,225

Feb 03, 2007, 07:20
by vikingfan

BWR Incore Instrumentation

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 17
Views: 25,543

Nov 21, 2008, 10:31
by wlrun3@aol.com

bwr relief valves

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 1
Views: 5,727

May 28, 2009, 05:13
by Fermi2

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

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

Castle Bravo

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,508

Mar 02, 2015, 02:36
by Marlin

Celebrating INL’s legacy of innovation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,678

Dec 23, 2025, 11:35
by Marlin

Chelyabinsk-40

Started by kp88

Replies: 2
Views: 9,008

Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

CHERNOBYL, inhabitable in 30 years[?]

Started by Tokarev

Replies: 24
Views: 18,573

Dec 15, 2016, 04:09
by Tokarev

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 5,197

Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,939

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,306

Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,863

Mar 20, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,460

May 14, 2020, 11:55
by Marlin

Companies before Bartlett took over

Started by shovelheadred

Replies: 19
Views: 11,896

Jan 11, 2007, 08:19
by nukewood

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,426

Dec 12, 2023, 05:53
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,460

Apr 22, 2024, 12:50
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

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,436

Dec 16, 2022, 12:32
by Marlin

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,699

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

Crisis at Three Mile Island

Started by Marlin

Replies: 19
Views: 9,356

Apr 01, 2018, 01:43
by TVA

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,408

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,726

Mar 21, 2019, 04:46
by Marlin

Deinococcus radiodurans

Started by Marlin

Replies: 8
Views: 18,246

Jan 04, 2008, 07:55
by Marlin

Demon core video

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,994

Oct 06, 2019, 12:00
by Marlin

Dental Fillings (Activation)

Started by JIMBOMAFF

Replies: 2
Views: 6,535

Nov 15, 2005, 10:46
by duke99301

Did Chernobyl Create Mutant Animals?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,391

Aug 13, 2019, 06:27
by Bonds 25

Did you know?

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 29
Views: 56,541

Apr 02, 2011, 06:18
by HydroDave63

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

Direct diesel drive

Started by matthew.b

Replies: 0
Views: 4,484

Nov 01, 2009, 01:17
by matthew.b

Disappearing dad

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,529

Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

Disney World should have gone nuclear

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,497

Nov 25, 2024, 12:04
by Bonds 25

Do you know how a Navy test range became the world’s premier nuclear lab?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,578

Sep 14, 2018, 07:24
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 2,822

Jul 31, 2023, 07:09
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,881

Mar 18, 2025, 09:15
by Marlin

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 1
Views: 4,443

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

Dry Cask Storage

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 9
Views: 19,560

Dec 02, 2010, 03:03
by matthew.b

Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,343

Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
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

Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,387

Dec 08, 2023, 10:18
by Marlin

electron capture area

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 15
Views: 14,160

Feb 25, 2009, 03:32
by TENN-1

Elk River - Rural America's First Atomic Power Plant

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,508

Sep 27, 2024, 07:58
by peteshonkwiler

Energy Information Administration

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,432

Nov 25, 2025, 10:13
by Marlin

Exposure/dose

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 18,009

Aug 15, 2007, 11:26
by Chimera

Fast burst reactors: A historical primer

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,033

Jul 15, 2024, 10:04
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

First Fifty Years of HP

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 8,201

Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,016

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

First Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,935

Apr 29, 2018, 01:03
by TVA

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,884

May 18, 2018, 10:05
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

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,511

Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
by Marlin

Fukushima Dose Rates

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 22
Views: 24,790

Jul 05, 2012, 03:17
by Bonds 25

Fusion Energy Week begins today

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,004

May 06, 2025, 12:53
by Marlin

General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,512

Apr 03, 2025, 10:20
by Marlin

Handford

Started by duke99301

Replies: 4
Views: 6,484

Jul 05, 2009, 12:11
by UncaBuffalo

hanford

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 12
Views: 14,820

Mar 07, 2011, 04:33
by 105KW

Harold Agnew Carrying the Plutonium Core of the Nagasaki Fat Man Bomb, 1945

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,227

Jun 04, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

Hartsville (TN)

Started by michaelcook

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Replies: 33
Views: 47,236

Aug 29, 2012, 12:17
by atomicarcheologist

Health Physicists

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,705

Aug 17, 2005, 08:59
by Marlin

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 9,380

Oct 23, 2013, 08:38
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

High level burial

Started by Marlin

Replies: 17
Views: 18,008

Feb 26, 2007, 02:35
by Marlin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The aftermath

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,153

Aug 07, 2024, 12:52
by Marlin

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,370

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

Hiroshima survivor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 9
Views: 20,070

Dec 16, 2007, 01:41
by Marlin

History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,510

Oct 04, 2005, 10:35
by Marlin

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,903

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

Honoring Dennis Wilkinson on the 106th anniversary of his birth

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,098

Aug 07, 2024, 09:32
by Marlin

Hope Creek Containment Building

Started by wlrun3@aol.com

Replies: 16
Views: 22,710

Jun 19, 2008, 01:29
by RRhoads

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,289

Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
by Marlin

How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,041

Jun 21, 2017, 10:24
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Replies: 30
Views: 22,155

Jan 05, 2017, 10:56
by Marlin

How Are Universal Ionizing Radiation Symbols Used Around the World?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,491

Dec 22, 2023, 02:21
by Marlin

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,210

Dec 18, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

How has a nuclear weapon never accidentally detonated?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,453

Aug 14, 2022, 02:18
by Marlin

How hot is fuel

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 15
Views: 10,767

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,485

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

How Radioactive Are You?

Started by YO!

Replies: 9
Views: 21,168

Jan 17, 2008, 06:05
by YO!

How Radiocarbon Dating Unlocks Ancient History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,016

Oct 01, 2024, 05:49
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,106

Jan 30, 2019, 12:52
by Chimera

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,510

Apr 15, 2024, 11:00
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,974

Jun 27, 2024, 09:38
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,633

Feb 11, 2022, 11:19
by Marlin

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,594

Aug 10, 2025, 01:14
by Marlin

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

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,488

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,760

Jul 07, 2025, 07:06
by Marlin