History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

Under a fermium sky

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Jun 28, 2017, 08:01
by Chimera

Radioactive food

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Views: 14,247

May 29, 2007, 04:36
by LaFeet

Living nuclear component.

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Views: 15,812

Feb 07, 2009, 10:42
by Marlin

Uranium abundence

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Views: 17,109

Feb 20, 2007, 08:01
by MrHazmat

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

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Views: 3,664

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

The Almost Nuclear Holocaust in North Carolina

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Views: 4,085

Jan 24, 2015, 11:00
by Marlin

THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

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Views: 2,871

May 17, 2018, 09:56
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,365

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,110

Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
by Marlin

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

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Views: 2,371

May 25, 2021, 03:12
by Marlin

Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba'

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Views: 2,496

Sep 02, 2020, 10:39
by Marlin

Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese wall

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Views: 1,815

Jan 31, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

How Are Universal Ionizing Radiation Symbols Used Around the World?

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Views: 1,929

Dec 22, 2023, 02:21
by Marlin

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

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Views: 9,086

Oct 23, 2013, 08:38
by Marlin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The aftermath

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Views: 1,643

Aug 07, 2024, 12:52
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,468

Jan 27, 2025, 05:01
by Marlin

AN ALTERNATIVE REACTOR

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Views: 2,851

May 09, 2018, 12:14
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,817

Aug 05, 2023, 10:00
by Marlin

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

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Views: 5,229

Jun 06, 2019, 01:14
by GLW

Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

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Views: 1,688

Jan 26, 2024, 02:17
by Marlin

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

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Views: 1,835

Jan 17, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

THE UNITED STATES NAVAL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM 2020

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Views: 4,256

Sep 17, 2020, 09:33
by Marlin

X-rays

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Views: 6,739

Jan 27, 2007, 08:15
by SloGlo

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

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Views: 2,998

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

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

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Views: 1,818

Aug 24, 2023, 12:43
by Marlin

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

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Views: 2,231

May 18, 2021, 12:05
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,109

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

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

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Views: 1,741

Jul 31, 2023, 12:58
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,427

Jan 31, 2023, 12:39
by Marlin

The Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor

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Views: 1,810

Dec 22, 2023, 09:30
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho

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Views: 1,521

May 24, 2024, 11:20
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,003

Dec 22, 2022, 02:17
by Marlin

The American reactor that was closed by fake news

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Views: 1,734

Jan 28, 2024, 01:18
by Marlin

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms

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Views: 3,034

Aug 10, 2025, 01:14
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,554

Jul 25, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,181

Jul 31, 2023, 07:09
by Marlin

The Original Target For The Second Nuclear Bomb

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Views: 1,885

Aug 09, 2022, 04:27
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,355

Jan 24, 2025, 05:12
by Marlin

TVA Prepares to Write Final Nuclear Chapters

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Views: 1,340

Oct 15, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

Reactor containments

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Views: 26,713

Apr 17, 2007, 09:56
by HydroDave63

Blue Peacock

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Replies: 3
Views: 6,402

Jan 26, 2007, 02:07
by SloGlo

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen

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Replies: 3
Views: 11,234

Apr 08, 2015, 07:22
by thenuttyneutron

The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

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Views: 2,764

May 06, 2017, 05:19
by Marlin

Project A119

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Replies: 3
Views: 4,124

Feb 12, 2019, 08:54
by RDTroja

Today in History - December 2 Nuclear Fission

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Views: 2,176

Dec 02, 2019, 01:45
by Marlin

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

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Views: 1,630

Jul 30, 2024, 09:46
by Marlin

THE DEMON CORE AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN

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Views: 3,849

May 24, 2016, 04:34
by Marlin

Energy Information Administration

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Views: 1,015

Nov 25, 2025, 10:13
by Marlin

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

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Views: 4,142

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

Health Physicists

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Views: 6,452

Aug 17, 2005, 08:59
by Marlin

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

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Views: 1,966

Dec 20, 2022, 07:42
by Mounder

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

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Views: 1,837

Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,355

Dec 18, 2019, 04:49
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,682

Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

High level burial

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Replies: 17
Views: 17,136

Feb 26, 2007, 02:35
by Marlin

The Strange Glass Born in Nuclear Explosions

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Views: 3,424

Apr 19, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

Castle Bravo

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Views: 5,242

Mar 02, 2015, 02:36
by Marlin

On Anniversary of Three Mile Island Crisis

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Replies: 8
Views: 5,470

Mar 30, 2017, 10:45
by Marlin

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

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Views: 2,638

May 18, 2018, 10:05
by Marlin

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

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Views: 5,168

Feb 06, 2015, 02:55
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,003

Nov 26, 2025, 10:49
by Marlin

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

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Views: 2,366

Oct 01, 2020, 12:01
by Marlin

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

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Views: 2,782

Nov 27, 2018, 06:26
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,259

May 02, 2016, 11:47
by Marlin

A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,504

Mar 02, 2014, 03:33
by retired nuke

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming

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Views: 2,441

Nov 08, 2019, 04:03
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,428

May 14, 2019, 11:15
by Marlin

What is a photon?

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Views: 2,203

Jun 30, 2021, 02:39
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,821

Dec 16, 2022, 12:32
by Marlin

The fear of a nuclear fire that would consume Earth

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Views: 1,695

Sep 10, 2023, 01:25
by Marlin

Radioactive Spark Plugs (ca. 1940s)

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Views: 2,987

Jul 13, 2024, 06:10
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,715

Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
by Marlin

Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology

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Views: 1,480

Nov 14, 2024, 02:39
by Marlin

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

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Views: 768

Jul 16, 2025, 10:07
by Marlin

Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes

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Views: 25,326

Jan 28, 2019, 06:43
by GLW

Inside the Impossible Dream of the Nuclear-Powered 1958 Ford Nucleon

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Views: 2,235

Jul 06, 2021, 11:46
by Marlin

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

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Views: 4,906

Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

5 Incredible Facts About the Atom Bomb

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Views: 2,136

May 31, 2021, 07:23
by Marlin

Jimmy Carter: America’s first nuclear president

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Views: 1,392

Feb 05, 2025, 12:49
by Marlin

The legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

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Views: 1,693

Feb 03, 2023, 12:11
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,621

Jul 24, 2025, 11:59
by Mounder

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

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Views: 1,584

Oct 24, 2024, 02:27
by Mounder

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

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Views: 1,807

Feb 13, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,545

Oct 01, 2018, 08:07
by Mounder

Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces

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Views: 2,291

Jun 07, 2021, 12:23
by Marlin

We Found an Unexpected Anomaly in the Pacific Ocean

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Views: 1,383

Feb 14, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,697

Apr 30, 2024, 10:45
by Marlin

]How powerful of a nuclear bomb could we make?

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Views: 1,937

Aug 22, 2022, 12:06
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,241

Feb 03, 2025, 03:55
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,243

Jul 07, 2025, 07:06
by Marlin

Japan's Atomic Bomb

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Replies: 15
Views: 17,701

Mar 08, 2006, 12:54
by LaFeet

October 11, 1954: The founding of ANS

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Views: 1,342

Oct 15, 2024, 10:35
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,906

Jul 24, 2025, 03:29
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,356

Nov 07, 2024, 09:50
by Marlin

Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex

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Views: 1,172

Feb 04, 2025, 09:09
by Marlin

Honoring Dennis Wilkinson on the 106th anniversary of his birth

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Views: 1,572

Aug 07, 2024, 09:32
by Marlin

Operation Plumbbob And The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,594

Nov 10, 2014, 11:38
by RFaunt

The Nuclear Canal

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Replies: 0
Views: 3,492

Jun 14, 2016, 09:03
by Marlin

First Reactor

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Replies: 3
Views: 3,653

Apr 29, 2018, 01:03
by TVA

USS TRITON 1ST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH UNDERWATER

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,541

Jun 19, 2017, 06:57
by bsdnuke

Nuclear fracking

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Replies: 15
Views: 16,962

Aug 28, 2013, 03:49
by retired nuke

The Moments After Chernobyl Blew

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,056

Jun 01, 2019, 11:21
by hamsamich

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,410

Aug 05, 2020, 11:35
by Marlin

"Fairy Ring"

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Replies: 3
Views: 7,700

Feb 05, 2007, 03:14
by Marlin

How has a nuclear weapon never accidentally detonated?

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Views: 1,888

Aug 14, 2022, 02:18
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,715

Jul 13, 2023, 11:09
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 3
Views: 6,154

Jun 18, 2011, 09:34
by hamsamich

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

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Views: 2,063

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 0
Views: 2,381

Aug 07, 2020, 02:58
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,445

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,770

Jun 21, 2017, 10:24
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,482

Oct 14, 2024, 10:18
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Replies: 1
Views: 1,813

Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
by Mounder

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

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Views: 2,151

Dec 17, 2019, 01:30
by Marlin

Matter of Risk (Chapter 5 excerpt about Chernobyl)

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Views: 2,470

Apr 25, 2018, 11:59
by Marlin

The Lithium Blues

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Replies: 1
Views: 5,290

Mar 18, 2014, 10:52
by BetaAnt

Disappearing dad

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,239

Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

This E-4's grave is the most dangerous gravesite in the world

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Replies: 5
Views: 3,865

May 31, 2019, 08:40
by scotoma

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

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Views: 2,213

May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,217

Jul 13, 2021, 04:37
by Marlin

Tracking the journey of a uranium cube

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Views: 2,259

May 03, 2019, 10:17
by Marlin

Astounding Science Fiction

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Views: 2,929

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Views: 1,733

Feb 23, 2024, 09:42
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

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Views: 2,275

Feb 11, 2022, 11:19
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,052

Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
by Marlin

The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

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Views: 2,555

Feb 06, 2019, 01:05
by Marlin

Balloon in cooling tower

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Views: 1,663

Jun 22, 2023, 12:44
by Marlin

Project Rover: The original nuclear-powered rocket program

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Views: 1,789

Jan 13, 2023, 09:25
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,647

May 15, 2024, 10:57
by Marlin

Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment

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Views: 1,500

Oct 07, 2024, 12:42
by Marlin

The US Army’s Nuclear Power Program in Film

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Views: 1,866

Feb 27, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

Oak Ridge: X-10 Graphite Reactor Virtual Tour

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Views: 1,069

Nov 23, 2025, 09:32
by Marlin

Nuclear bomb fallout

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Replies: 9
Views: 8,765

Feb 09, 2009, 10:50
by Marlin

Rescuing the Atomic Dog

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Replies: 1
Views: 3,448

Mar 10, 2014, 10:46
by UncaBuffalo

What It's Like to Actually See an Atomic Explosion

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Views: 3,199

Apr 18, 2016, 09:54
by Marlin

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

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Views: 1,891

Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 1
Views: 1,637

May 23, 2024, 09:57
by Mounder

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

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Views: 2,407

Apr 28, 2019, 10:55
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

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Views: 6,419

May 07, 2024, 07:14
by Marlin

Thorium welding rod exposure

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Replies: 5
Views: 12,827

Feb 15, 2008, 06:08
by atomicarcheologist

Secret Atomic Role of WWII-Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

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Views: 3,022

May 02, 2016, 11:35
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 4
Views: 3,637

Jan 30, 2019, 12:52
by Chimera

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

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Views: 14,215

Aug 10, 2025, 12:25
by Marlin

Taiwan Hunts for Radioactive Apartments

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Views: 2,271

Jan 20, 2022, 01:22
by Marlin

Disney World should have gone nuclear

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Replies: 1
Views: 1,939

Nov 25, 2024, 12:04
by Bonds 25

Deinococcus radiodurans

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Replies: 8
Views: 17,409

Jan 04, 2008, 07:55
by Marlin

Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients?

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Views: 1,423

Nov 05, 2025, 06:29
by Marlin

The Peach Bottom-1 HTGR

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Views: 1,947

Aug 15, 2024, 10:46
by Marlin

Hiroshima survivor

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Replies: 9
Views: 19,434

Dec 16, 2007, 01:41
by Marlin

Water Boiler Reactor

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Views: 1,580

May 09, 2024, 01:42
by Marlin