History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

MOVED: Edward Snowden

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Aug 10, 2013, 09:05
by Marlin

PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST RADIATION DETECTOR YOU ALREADY OWN

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Views: 2,438

Sep 30, 2022, 10:07
by SloGlo

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

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Views: 1,683

Jul 07, 2025, 07:06
by Marlin

Russia Has a Fatally Wounded Nuclear Submarine

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Views: 4,002

Nov 23, 2016, 07:14
by Marlin

Nuking the Aleutians

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Views: 4,069

Oct 06, 2014, 03:36
by HydroDave63

Chicago Pile 1, 72 years ago

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Dec 03, 2014, 08:01
by Marlin

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

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Views: 8,887

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Jul 02, 2024, 11:05
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,435

Apr 15, 2024, 11:00
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

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Views: 2,236

Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
by Marlin

The last days of Hallam

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Oct 24, 2025, 09:46
by Marlin

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

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Views: 8,083

Mar 31, 2016, 12:48
by GLW

Nuclear fracking

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Views: 17,644

Aug 28, 2013, 03:49
by retired nuke

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

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Views: 2,675

Mar 21, 2019, 04:46
by Marlin

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

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Views: 3,064

Apr 03, 2019, 12:31
by GLW

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

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Views: 2,895

May 14, 2021, 02:19
by Mounder

Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Views: 1,874

Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
by Marlin

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

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Sep 11, 2019, 11:24
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,936

Oct 14, 2024, 10:18
by Marlin

Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

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Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,538

Sep 14, 2018, 07:24
by Marlin

7 Moments in December that Changed Nuclear Energy History

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Dec 20, 2023, 03:50
by Marlin

Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

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Views: 2,794

Mar 20, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

The SNAP-10A reactor power system

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Views: 2,351

Apr 15, 2024, 07:29
by Mounder

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

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Views: 1,837

Jan 24, 2025, 05:12
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,448

Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
by Marlin

Matter of Risk (Chapter 5 excerpt about Chernobyl)

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Views: 2,667

Apr 25, 2018, 11:59
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

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Views: 1,910

Jun 27, 2024, 09:38
by Marlin

The Curious History of Neutrinos and Nuclear Reactors

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Views: 2,167

Oct 03, 2024, 10:32
by Marlin

Nuclear-powered concept cars from the Atomic Age

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Views: 4,729

Jul 20, 2014, 10:08
by SloGlo

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

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May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

Why did the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima leave shadows of people etched on s

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Views: 4,533

Mar 28, 2024, 12:23
by Marlin

Secret Atomic Role of WW II–Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

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May 15, 2023, 01:52
by Marlin

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

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Jul 13, 2023, 11:09
by Marlin

Organic Cooled Reactors: Five Fast Facts!

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Views: 1,584

Apr 17, 2025, 09:29
by Marlin

Elk River - Rural America's First Atomic Power Plant

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Views: 2,441

Sep 27, 2024, 07:58
by peteshonkwiler

Crisis at Three Mile Island

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Views: 9,148

Apr 01, 2018, 01:43
by TVA

Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos

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Views: 3,033

Jul 07, 2018, 11:15
by Marlin

The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

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Views: 2,332

Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,355

Dec 12, 2023, 05:53
by Marlin

Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment

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Views: 1,952

Oct 07, 2024, 12:42
by Marlin

Romance of Radium (1937)

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Views: 3,743

Aug 20, 2014, 10:33
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,651

Jan 22, 2025, 04:00
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,128

Jul 15, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,561

Aug 10, 2018, 05:16
by hamsamich

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

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Views: 2,256

Dec 06, 2023, 01:39
by Marlin

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

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Views: 21,776

Jan 05, 2017, 10:56
by Marlin

Nukemap

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Views: 6,665

Jan 13, 2018, 11:31
by Rennhack

Tracking the journey of a uranium cube

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Views: 2,506

May 03, 2019, 10:17
by Marlin

The SLAM Missile Was a Flying Chernobyl

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Views: 4,213

Sep 10, 2014, 12:00
by Marlin

Accelerator disabled

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Views: 5,387

Jan 29, 2007, 01:00
by Marlin

Taiwan Hunts for Radioactive Apartments

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Views: 2,518

Jan 20, 2022, 01:22
by Marlin

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

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Views: 2,566

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

10 everyday products that were radioactive

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Views: 3,429

Feb 14, 2018, 12:05
by Marlin

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming

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Views: 2,697

Nov 08, 2019, 04:03
by Marlin

Image

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Apr 02, 2020, 10:00
by peteshonkwiler

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

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Jun 04, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,368

Dec 16, 2022, 12:32
by Marlin

There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

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Views: 2,235

Mar 05, 2023, 02:25
by Marlin

Is microwave cooking nuking all the nutrients?

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Views: 2,404

Nov 05, 2025, 06:29
by Marlin

A witness to atomic history

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Views: 3,282

Dec 02, 2017, 09:30
by Marlin

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

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Views: 2,442

Dec 10, 2021, 02:11
by Marlin

N.S. Savannah and the American Nuclear Society

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Views: 1,999

Sep 13, 2024, 11:35
by Marlin

What It's Like to Actually See an Atomic Explosion

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Views: 3,416

Apr 18, 2016, 09:54
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,426

Apr 03, 2020, 12:38
by Marlin

No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future 1979

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Views: 3,725

Mar 31, 2019, 02:22
by Bonds 25

The Most Toxic Tourist Attraction in the World

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Views: 2,307

Mar 12, 2023, 07:14
by Marlin

History

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Views: 6,452

Oct 04, 2005, 10:35
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,839

Nov 04, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

Scientists/Discoveries

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Views: 18,565

Oct 18, 2014, 07:26
by sderyke2002

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

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Views: 2,644

Apr 28, 2019, 10:55
by Marlin

Demon core video

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Views: 2,945

Oct 06, 2019, 12:00
by Marlin

When Televisions Were Radioactive

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Views: 2,637

Sep 24, 2018, 10:42
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,360

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

Manmade elements

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Views: 5,774

Mar 20, 2009, 10:20
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,393

Apr 22, 2024, 12:50
by Marlin

Reactor cores/piles/design

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Views: 14,957

Jan 09, 2011, 06:27
by co60slr

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

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Views: 2,252

May 08, 2023, 12:56
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,356

Dec 02, 2022, 10:29
by Marlin

X-rays

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Views: 7,035

Jan 27, 2007, 08:15
by SloGlo

The origins of The Reactor Safety Study

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Views: 1,949

Sep 24, 2024, 10:34
by Marlin

John Hendrix: The Prophet of Oak Ridge

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Views: 3,098

Oct 18, 2021, 09:56
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,332

Jul 05, 2025, 05:53
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,245

Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
by Mounder

9 nuclear inventions the Atomic Age nearly unleashed

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Views: 2,645

Oct 29, 2025, 11:31
by Marlin

Operation Plumbbob And The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

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Views: 3,821

Nov 10, 2014, 11:38
by RFaunt

What Ten Radioactive Elements Have the Longest Half-Lives?

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Views: 7,557

Jan 18, 2016, 10:51
by SloGlo

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

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Views: 2,463

May 18, 2021, 12:05
by Marlin

Radiation control pratices

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Views: 13,494

Oct 06, 2006, 12:48
by SloGlo

Nuclear Football

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Replies: 3
Views: 7,385

Jan 24, 2007, 07:47
by SloGlo

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

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Views: 3,532

Mar 10, 2019, 04:27
by GLW

The Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor

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Views: 2,326

Dec 22, 2023, 09:30
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,168

Oct 09, 2025, 11:04
by Marlin

Power and Promise: Early Atomic Power in Film!

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Views: 2,382

Dec 19, 2024, 11:29
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,913

Jan 27, 2025, 05:01
by Marlin

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor

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Views: 7,211

Feb 14, 2016, 09:43
by GLW

The Blue Peacock: The Chicken-Heated Nuclear Land Mine

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Views: 2,597

Oct 01, 2021, 01:47
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,731

Mar 07, 2021, 12:00
by Marlin

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

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Views: 2,429

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

Katie the Calutron Girl visits A.K. Bissel Park

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Views: 2,261

Mar 30, 2024, 10:39
by Marlin

Physicists re-create forgotten experiment observing fusion

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Views: 1,073

Jun 27, 2025, 05:51
by Marlin

Blue Peacock

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Views: 6,645

Jan 26, 2007, 02:07
by SloGlo

We Are East Idaho: Arco

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Views: 2,566

Mar 25, 2019, 06:39
by Marlin

Admiral Rickover's Gamble

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Views: 4,066

Oct 10, 2014, 04:08
by Marlin

“Nuclear geyser” may be origin of life

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Views: 3,198

Apr 18, 2018, 04:49
by atomicarcheologist

WE CHOOSE TO NUKE THE MOON

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Views: 3,481

Sep 14, 2021, 06:47
by GLW

Fusion Energy Week begins today

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Views: 1,930

May 06, 2025, 12:53
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,408

May 14, 2020, 11:55
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,416

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,524

Dec 22, 2022, 02:17
by Marlin

Three Mile Island -- Failure Of Science Or Spin?

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Replies: 3
Views: 3,339

Mar 28, 2019, 11:00
by Bonds 25

Nuclear Outboard Motor

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Replies: 1
Views: 4,235

Aug 10, 2013, 07:57
by SloGlo

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

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Views: 2,636

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

Meet Project Orion: The Crazy Plan to Use Nuclear Bombs as Explosive Fuel

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Views: 2,410

Mar 03, 2021, 11:43
by Marlin

Balloon in cooling tower

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Views: 2,123

Jun 22, 2023, 12:44
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,352

Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,108

Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

48 Hours (November 17, 1988) Fernald

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Views: 2,826

Dec 06, 2022, 07:26
by Mounder

The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

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Views: 1,983

Dec 10, 2024, 10:24
by Marlin

On Anniversary of Three Mile Island Crisis

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Replies: 8
Views: 5,990

Mar 30, 2017, 10:45
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 2
Views: 2,954

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

Nuclear Test in Totskoye in 1954

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Views: 2,753

Sep 13, 2019, 11:12
by Marlin

Today in History - December 2 Nuclear Fission

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Views: 2,396

Dec 02, 2019, 01:45
by Marlin

The design and legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II

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Views: 2,140

Nov 22, 2023, 09:46
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,405

Nov 02, 2022, 10:39
by Marlin

Fast burst reactors: A historical primer

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Views: 1,967

Jul 15, 2024, 10:04
by Marlin

First Fifty Years of HP

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Views: 8,139

Apr 05, 2012, 02:45
by Rennhack

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

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Views: 62

Apr 04, 2026, 09:16
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 3
Views: 3,080

May 11, 2020, 10:56
by peteshonkwiler

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

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Views: 188

Mar 13, 2026, 07:17
by Marlin

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

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Replies: 1
Views: 2,455

Dec 20, 2022, 07:42
by Mounder

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Views: 2,055

Dec 12, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

Bacteria: radioactive elements replace essential rare earth metals

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Views: 2,318

May 17, 2023, 03:18
by Marlin

Why is Jimmy Carter trending on Twitter?

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Views: 2,444

Dec 17, 2021, 01:36
by Marlin

Nuclear Energy for Puerto Rico

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Views: 2,078

Sep 19, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,375

Apr 06, 2020, 10:13
by Marlin

Piqua organic-cooled reactor in photo and film

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Views: 2,254

Nov 05, 2025, 09:57
by Mounder

Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission

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Views: 232

Mar 17, 2026, 10:44
by Marlin

Remembering the Savannah River Plant

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Views: 1,792

Dec 18, 2024, 10:55
by Marlin

How Radiocarbon Dating Unlocks Ancient History

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Views: 1,947

Oct 01, 2024, 05:49
by Marlin

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

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Views: 3,790

Oct 01, 2018, 08:07
by Mounder

Radioactive Boyscout

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Views: 9,421

Jan 06, 2007, 12:59
by thenuttyneutron

Manhattan Project Park: Walk through Wheat

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Views: 2,024

Jul 05, 2024, 04:12
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,918

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,469

Nov 22, 2016, 05:47
by Marlin

Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70

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Views: 2,311

Dec 08, 2023, 10:18
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,590

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

Did Chernobyl Create Mutant Animals?

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,332

Aug 13, 2019, 06:27
by Bonds 25

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

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Views: 2,148

Apr 30, 2024, 10:45
by Marlin

The first homes on Mars may be alive

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Views: 101

Apr 03, 2026, 02:12
by Rennhack