History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

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

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Jul 13, 2023, 11:09
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Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on s

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Mar 28, 2024, 12:23
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Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment

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Oct 07, 2024, 12:42
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Jul 02, 2024, 11:05
by Marlin

Oak Ridge: X-10 Graphite Reactor Virtual Tour

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Nov 23, 2025, 09:32
by Marlin

MOVED: Edward Snowden

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Aug 10, 2013, 09:05
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Feb 23, 2024, 09:42
by Marlin

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

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Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

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

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Dec 18, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

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May 07, 2024, 07:14
by Marlin

Nuclear Explosions since 1945

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Dec 08, 2009, 12:26
by Rennhack

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

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Jan 30, 2026, 09:00
by Marlin

Water Boiler Reactor

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May 09, 2024, 01:42
by Marlin

Romance of Radium (1937)

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Aug 20, 2014, 10:33
by Marlin

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Dec 12, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

Wyoming History: Sundance Had First Portable Nuclear Reactor In The United State

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Aug 24, 2023, 12:43
by Marlin

Katie the Calutron Girl visits A.K. Bissel Park

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Mar 30, 2024, 10:39
by Marlin

The US Army’s Nuclear Power Program in Film

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Feb 27, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

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Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
by Marlin

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

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Jul 16, 2025, 10:07
by Marlin

Physicists re-create forgotten experiment observing fusion

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Jun 27, 2025, 05:51
by Marlin

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

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Apr 30, 2024, 10:45
by Marlin

Supersonic airliners, ozone, and wildfire smoke: Origins of the nuclear winter t

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May 13, 2026, 11:20
by Marlin

The fear of a nuclear fire that would consume Earth

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Sep 10, 2023, 01:25
by Marlin

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

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Jun 04, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
by Marlin

Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients?

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Nov 05, 2025, 06:29
by Marlin

We Found an Unexpected Anomaly in the Pacific Ocean

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Feb 14, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

Jimmy Carter: America’s first nuclear president

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Feb 05, 2025, 12:49
by Marlin

nrc nuclear concepts manual

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Nov 21, 2008, 02:09
by wlrun3@aol.com

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

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Apr 22, 2024, 12:50
by Marlin

Fusion Energy Week begins today

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May 06, 2025, 12:53
by Marlin

Nuclear Power Reactor Technology, 1950-1953 (Part III)

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Nov 07, 2024, 09:50
by Marlin

Admiral Rickover's Gamble

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Oct 10, 2014, 04:08
by Marlin

Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

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Sep 29, 2023, 07:56
by Marlin

Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

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Jan 26, 2024, 02:17
by Marlin

Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70

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Dec 08, 2023, 10:18
by Marlin

Old Videos

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Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

The Real Father of the Nuclear Age

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Mar 11, 2024, 12:38
by Marlin

Nuclear Energy for Puerto Rico

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Sep 19, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

Why X-Rays Can’t Push Interstellar Sails

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Jun 08, 2024, 02:23
by Marlin

Organic Cooled Reactors: Five Fast Facts!

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Views: 1,652

Apr 17, 2025, 09:29
by Marlin

The Age of Radiance

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Jun 03, 2014, 05:24
by Wlrun3

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

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Views: 2,863

Mar 20, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

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May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

The Curious History of Neutrinos and Nuclear Reactors

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Oct 03, 2024, 10:32
by Marlin

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

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Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

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

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Dec 06, 2023, 01:39
by Marlin

Celebrating INL’s legacy of innovation

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Dec 23, 2025, 11:35
by Marlin

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

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Jun 07, 2024, 06:24
by Marlin

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

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Jul 15, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

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

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Oct 09, 2025, 11:04
by Marlin

The SLAM Missile Was a Flying Chernobyl

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Sep 10, 2014, 12:00
by Marlin

The Almost Nuclear Holocaust in North Carolina

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Jan 24, 2015, 11:00
by Marlin

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

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Aug 14, 2015, 10:35
by Marlin

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

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Oct 04, 2023, 12:34
by Marlin

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

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Oct 22, 2023, 09:15
by Marlin

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

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Jan 27, 2025, 05:01
by Marlin

9 nuclear inventions the Atomic Age nearly unleashed

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Oct 29, 2025, 11:31
by Marlin

MOVED: tutor

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Oct 19, 2010, 07:22
by Rennhack

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

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Jul 05, 2025, 05:53
by Marlin

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

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Aug 15, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

Throwback Thursday: The legend of SCRAM

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Dec 05, 2024, 10:51
by Marlin

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

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Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
by Marlin

Direct diesel drive

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

Paul Newman, the Pacific and the bomb that changed the world

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Aug 10, 2025, 12:25
by Marlin

systems

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Sep 24, 2007, 11:33
by wlrun3@aol.com

Energy Information Administration

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Nov 25, 2025, 10:13
by Marlin

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

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Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

History

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Oct 04, 2005, 10:35
by Marlin

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

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Jan 24, 2025, 05:12
by Marlin

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

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Oct 23, 2013, 08:38
by Marlin

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

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Oct 14, 2024, 10:18
by Marlin

October 11, 1954: The founding of ANS

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Oct 15, 2024, 10:35
by Marlin

World’s Most Dangerous Toy? Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950

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Feb 13, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

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

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Jul 25, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

Project 81 - An Almost Forgotten Standard Nuclear Plant Project

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Apr 03, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

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

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Jul 31, 2023, 12:58
by Marlin

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

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May 15, 2024, 10:57
by Marlin

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

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Mar 18, 2025, 09:15
by Marlin

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

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Feb 29, 2024, 04:42
by Marlin

Manhattan Project sites may become national parks by 2013

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Views: 8,471

Sep 01, 2012, 02:04
by Rennhack

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

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Sep 05, 2024, 10:23
by Marlin

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

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Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Showdown at Shoreham

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Sep 03, 2024, 10:13
by Marlin

Health Physicists

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Aug 17, 2005, 08:59
by Marlin

Fast burst reactors: A historical primer

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Jul 15, 2024, 10:04
by Marlin

The American reactor that was closed by fake news

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Jan 28, 2024, 01:18
by Marlin

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

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Dec 12, 2023, 05:53
by Marlin

Nuclear Weapons Trivia

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Views: 7,398

Apr 05, 2011, 06:01
by Mike McFarlin

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

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Views: 2,289

Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
by Marlin

Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear Radiation

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Views: 2,668

Jan 21, 2020, 05:59
by SloGlo

Bernie Pad

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Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

The SNAP-10A reactor power system

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Views: 2,421

Apr 15, 2024, 07:29
by Mounder

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

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May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST RADIATION DETECTOR YOU ALREADY OWN

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Sep 30, 2022, 10:07
by SloGlo

“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase

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Views: 4,499

Jun 04, 2016, 05:25
by Rennhack

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Views: 2,364

Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
by Mounder

ReActor House

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Views: 3,366

Oct 28, 2016, 10:56
by SloGlo

The Moments After Chernobyl Blew

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Jun 01, 2019, 11:21
by hamsamich

Nuclear Books

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Nov 26, 2010, 09:39
by wlrun3@aol.com

Elk River - Rural America's First Atomic Power Plant

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Sep 27, 2024, 07:58
by peteshonkwiler

Under a fermium sky

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Jun 28, 2017, 08:01
by Chimera

Mass extinction via isotopic analysis

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Views: 2,912

Oct 20, 2020, 09:24
by GLW

Operation Plumbbob And The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

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Views: 3,873

Nov 10, 2014, 11:38
by RFaunt

Was there really a nuclear explosion in Rhode Island? Here's the story of Wood R

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Views: 2,171

May 23, 2024, 09:57
by Mounder

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

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Views: 2,969

May 14, 2021, 02:19
by Mounder

First Fifty Years of HP

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Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

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

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Views: 2,328

Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
by Mounder

The SNAP-10A reactor power system

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Views: 491

Apr 15, 2026, 12:26
by Mounder

USS TRITON 1ST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH UNDERWATER

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Views: 3,813

Jun 19, 2017, 06:57
by bsdnuke

Nukeworker magic eye

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Views: 3,464

Oct 12, 2016, 05:19
by Rennhack

Disney World should have gone nuclear

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Views: 2,497

Nov 25, 2024, 12:04
by Bonds 25

]How powerful of a nuclear bomb could we make?

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Views: 2,482

Aug 22, 2022, 12:06
by Marlin

Piqua organic-cooled reactor in photo and film

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Views: 2,338

Nov 05, 2025, 09:57
by Mounder

Nuclear Outboard Motor

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Views: 4,301

Aug 10, 2013, 07:57
by SloGlo

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

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Views: 4,477

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,432

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,141

Jul 24, 2025, 11:59
by Mounder

Rescuing the Atomic Dog

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,778

Mar 10, 2014, 10:46
by UncaBuffalo

bwr relief valves

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Views: 5,727

May 28, 2009, 05:13
by Fermi2

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

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Views: 2,066

Dec 10, 2024, 10:24
by Marlin

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

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Views: 6,665

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

The Lithium Blues

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Views: 5,552

Mar 18, 2014, 10:52
by BetaAnt

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,975

Mar 07, 2019, 10:39
by Bonds 25

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,761

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 4,468

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,538

Dec 20, 2022, 07:42
by Mounder

Training EOOW

Started by Wighty44

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Views: 4,024

Dec 26, 2018, 11:27
by NoHorns

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,424

Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
by Marlin

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

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Views: 4,996

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,422

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,801

Mar 02, 2014, 03:33
by retired nuke

why dosimeters where in vented

Started by SloGlo

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Views: 2,746

Sep 13, 2018, 09:23
by Chimera

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,181

Oct 24, 2024, 02:27
by Mounder

Castle Bravo

Started by Marlin

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Views: 5,509

Mar 02, 2015, 02:36
by Marlin

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,260

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,113

Apr 03, 2019, 12:31
by GLW

Operation Grapple

Started by Rain Man

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Views: 6,888

Aug 05, 2010, 05:08
by RAD-GHOST

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 5,429

Feb 06, 2015, 02:55
by Marlin

The first homes on Mars may be alive

Started by Marlin

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Apr 03, 2026, 02:12
by Rennhack

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

Started by Marlin

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Jan 05, 2026, 07:49
by Marlin

Accelerator disabled

Started by Marlin

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Jan 29, 2007, 01:00
by Marlin

Disappearing dad

Started by Marlin

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Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

Chelyabinsk-40

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Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

Nuking the Aleutians

Started by Marlin

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Oct 06, 2014, 03:36
by HydroDave63

Image

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Views: 2,901

Apr 02, 2020, 10:00
by peteshonkwiler

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,017

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

Radioactive Spark Plugs (ca. 1940s)

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,586

Jul 13, 2024, 06:10
by Marlin