History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms

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Views: 3,618

Aug 10, 2025, 01:14
by Marlin

Project A119

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 4,482

Feb 12, 2019, 08:54
by RDTroja

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

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Views: 2,426

Jul 24, 2025, 03:29
by Marlin

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

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Replies: 3
Views: 11,649

Apr 08, 2015, 07:22
by thenuttyneutron

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

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Views: 2,227

May 15, 2024, 10:57
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,057

Jun 07, 2024, 06:24
by Marlin

The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

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Views: 2,904

Feb 06, 2019, 01:05
by Marlin

Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

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Replies: 2
Views: 3,407

Mar 06, 2019, 12:43
by RRhoads

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

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Views: 2,386

Feb 13, 2024, 12:31
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,457

Nov 26, 2025, 10:49
by Marlin

Nuclear History In focus: The Three Mile Island special report

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Views: 1,527

Mar 27, 2025, 09:44
by Marlin

Japan's Atomic Bomb

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Replies: 15
Views: 18,195

Mar 08, 2006, 12:54
by LaFeet

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

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Replies: 5
Views: 4,336

May 31, 2019, 08:40
by scotoma

]How powerful of a nuclear bomb could we make?

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Views: 2,489

Aug 22, 2022, 12:06
by Marlin

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

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Views: 2,458

Dec 17, 2019, 01:30
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,228

Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,221

Feb 29, 2024, 04:42
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,046

Jun 21, 2017, 10:24
by Marlin

800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?

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Replies: 1
Views: 4,478

Feb 26, 2015, 06:16
by mjd

The legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

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Views: 2,245

Feb 03, 2023, 12:11
by Marlin

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

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Views: 3,549

May 02, 2016, 11:47
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,396

Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
by Marlin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The aftermath

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Views: 2,163

Aug 07, 2024, 12:52
by Marlin

Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese wall

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Views: 2,381

Jan 31, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

Squeeze inside a fusion reactor with a Nat Geo photographer

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Views: 1,885

Dec 07, 2025, 06:24
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,780

Jan 05, 2026, 07:49
by Marlin

Honoring Dennis Wilkinson on the 106th anniversary of his birth

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Views: 2,109

Aug 07, 2024, 09:32
by Marlin

Showdown at Shoreham

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Views: 1,969

Sep 03, 2024, 10:13
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,653

Dec 18, 2019, 04:49
by Marlin

Strange Life Forms Are Growing in an Abandoned Uranium Mine

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Views: 2,308

Feb 04, 2023, 12:23
by Marlin

Under a fermium sky

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,677

Jun 28, 2017, 08:01
by Chimera

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,900

Nov 07, 2024, 09:50
by Marlin

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,890

May 18, 2018, 10:05
by Marlin

We Found an Unexpected Anomaly in the Pacific Ocean

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Views: 1,897

Feb 14, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,262

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

Tree-rings reveal secret clocks

Started by Marlin

Replies: 13
Views: 8,964

Aug 18, 2016, 12:33
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,295

Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
by Marlin

The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,435

Jan 17, 2023, 02:52
by Marlin

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

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Views: 2,499

Jan 30, 2026, 09:00
by Marlin

High level burial

Started by Marlin

Replies: 17
Views: 18,018

Feb 26, 2007, 02:35
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,375

Aug 05, 2023, 10:00
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 1,885

Mar 18, 2025, 09:15
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,179

May 23, 2024, 09:57
by Mounder

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,355

Feb 23, 2024, 09:42
by Marlin

Rescuing the Atomic Dog

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,784

Mar 10, 2014, 10:46
by UncaBuffalo

The American reactor that was closed by fake news

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,292

Jan 28, 2024, 01:18
by Marlin

The US Army’s Nuclear Power Program in Film

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,421

Feb 27, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

What is a photon?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,504

Jun 30, 2021, 02:39
by Marlin

Tour the first nuclear reactor to produce electricity using atomic power in Arco

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Views: 2,647

Jul 15, 2021, 11:15
by Marlin

A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,805

Mar 02, 2014, 03:33
by retired nuke

Nuclear Rocket

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 7,044

Mar 02, 2007, 06:15
by Trinian23

THE UNITED STATES NAVAL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM 2020

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 4,716

Sep 17, 2020, 09:33
by Marlin

Water Boiler Reactor

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Views: 2,128

May 09, 2024, 01:42
by Marlin

Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

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Views: 2,292

Sep 29, 2023, 07:56
by Marlin

Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho

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Views: 2,080

May 24, 2024, 11:20
by Marlin

Castle Bravo

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,520

Mar 02, 2015, 02:36
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,429

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

THE DEMON CORE AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN

Started by Marlin

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Views: 4,128

May 24, 2016, 04:34
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,115

Jan 30, 2019, 12:52
by Chimera

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,774

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

Thorium welding rod exposure

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 13,470

Feb 15, 2008, 06:08
by atomicarcheologist

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 5,667

Jun 06, 2019, 01:14
by GLW

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,226

Dec 18, 2025, 10:58
by Marlin

The Nuclear Canal

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,766

Jun 14, 2016, 09:03
by Marlin

How has a nuclear weapon never accidentally detonated?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,468

Aug 14, 2022, 02:18
by Marlin

Living nuclear component.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 23
Views: 16,741

Feb 07, 2009, 10:42
by Marlin

The Moments After Chernobyl Blew

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,361

Jun 01, 2019, 11:21
by hamsamich

Reactor containments

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 28
Views: 28,139

Apr 17, 2007, 09:56
by HydroDave63

Instrumentation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 7,057

Sep 15, 2006, 11:58
by SloGlo

The Original Target For The Second Nuclear Bomb

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,374

Aug 09, 2022, 04:27
by Marlin

Did your computer crash? It might have been a cosmic ray

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,289

Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

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

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Views: 14,731

Aug 10, 2025, 12:25
by Marlin

Astounding Science Fiction

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,215

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

Raising the Kursk

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Views: 8,758

Jul 21, 2019, 10:46
by Marlin

Celebrating INL’s legacy of innovation

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,684

Dec 23, 2025, 11:35
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 3,164

Jan 31, 2023, 12:39
by Marlin

The Peach Bottom-1 HTGR

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,472

Aug 15, 2024, 10:46
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,384

Aug 24, 2023, 12:43
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,375

Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
by Mounder

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

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Views: 3,035

Aug 15, 2025, 09:31
by Marlin

Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba'

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,804

Sep 02, 2020, 10:39
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,753

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

Exposure/dose

Started by Marlin

Replies: 15
Views: 18,013

Aug 15, 2007, 11:26
by Chimera

Disney World should have gone nuclear

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,503

Nov 25, 2024, 12:04
by Bonds 25

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,382

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

70th Anniversary of Atoms for Peace Speech

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,207

Sep 29, 2023, 02:06
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,544

Jul 06, 2021, 11:46
by Marlin

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,488

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,046

Nov 14, 2024, 02:39
by Marlin

USS TRITON 1ST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH UNDERWATER

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,817

Jun 19, 2017, 06:57
by bsdnuke

The fear of a nuclear fire that would consume Earth

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,259

Sep 10, 2023, 01:25
by Marlin

THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,101

May 17, 2018, 09:56
by Marlin

The Dragon Bites Twice: “Tickling the Tail of the Dragon”

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,240

May 22, 2018, 08:53
by Marlin

Restoration of the NRX Reactor: The First Meltdown (1959)

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,039

Nov 24, 2024, 09:08
by Marlin

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,653

Oct 01, 2020, 12:01
by Marlin

Uranium abundence

Started by Marlin

Replies: 18
Views: 18,052

Feb 20, 2007, 08:01
by MrHazmat

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,501

Jul 13, 2021, 04:37
by Marlin

Deinococcus radiodurans

Started by Marlin

Replies: 8
Views: 18,250

Jan 04, 2008, 07:55
by Marlin

Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,586

Jun 07, 2021, 12:23
by Marlin

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,411

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

Nuclear bomb fallout

Started by Marlin

Replies: 9
Views: 9,532

Feb 09, 2009, 10:50
by Marlin

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

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,188

Oct 24, 2024, 02:27
by Mounder

Tsar Bomba: the Bomb Too Big to Use

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,030

Aug 17, 2017, 12:34
by Marlin

The Lithium Blues

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 5,554

Mar 18, 2014, 10:52
by BetaAnt

Jimmy Carter: America’s first nuclear president

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 1,951

Feb 05, 2025, 12:49
by Marlin

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,730

Aug 14, 2015, 10:35
by Marlin

Health Physicists

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 6,710

Aug 17, 2005, 08:59
by Marlin

San Onofre Construction Workers Sought for History Project

Started by Mack

Replies: 4
Views: 8,330

May 09, 2010, 11:20
by Mack

Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion

Started by Ksheed

Replies: 0
Views: 4,682

Sep 19, 2013, 12:43
by Ksheed

Sept. 30, 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned

Started by Ksheed

Replies: 0
Views: 6,088

Sep 30, 2013, 01:56
by Ksheed

Chelyabinsk-40

Started by kp88

Replies: 2
Views: 9,016

Oct 26, 2008, 07:46
by kp88

A1W

Started by kp88

Replies: 6
Views: 15,022

May 31, 2009, 10:29
by midwatchcowboy

Dental Fillings (Activation)

Started by JIMBOMAFF

Replies: 2
Views: 6,539

Nov 15, 2005, 10:46
by duke99301

The Rutherford Building at Manchester University

Started by JessJen

Replies: 1
Views: 4,999

Oct 10, 2009, 02:38
by atomicarcheologist

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,941

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

North American Earthquake?

Started by GLW

Replies: 12
Views: 14,189

Mar 23, 2011, 12:26
by jjack50

NS Savannah

Started by GLW

Replies: 19
Views: 18,210

May 31, 2011, 08:35
by HydroDave63

Nifty Website With Info On Able And Baker

Started by Fermi2

Replies: 4
Views: 6,330

Dec 17, 2010, 08:56
by Laundry Man

Handford

Started by duke99301

Replies: 4
Views: 6,489

Jul 05, 2009, 12:11
by UncaBuffalo

50 ways to save a millirem the video

Started by DJ@Retired

Replies: 13
Views: 25,418

Sep 03, 2010, 11:25
by thenukeman

BWR History

Started by deaztrailnutz

Replies: 3
Views: 8,230

Feb 03, 2007, 07:20
by vikingfan

Old Videos

Started by ddickey

Replies: 0
Views: 3,452

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."

Started by Cathy

Replies: 0
Views: 15,047

Jan 12, 2008, 11:13
by Cathy

Driver pulled over -- for being radioactive...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 1
Views: 4,446

May 12, 2012, 05:15
by IRLFAN

Kodak ... had a nuclear reactor ...

Started by Captain America

Replies: 0
Views: 4,978

May 14, 2012, 08:36
by Captain America

Trinity Test site M4 Sherman tanks

Started by Bongopete

Replies: 1
Views: 6,679

Feb 09, 2009, 07:58
by Adam Grundleger

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,865

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

How hot is fuel

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 15
Views: 10,805

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

SCA Question

Started by asher

Replies: 5
Views: 11,560

Oct 12, 2005, 10:54
by shayne

V site LANL

Started by alphadude

Replies: 2
Views: 9,461

Oct 19, 2006, 03:35
by Mike McFarlin

what plant is in this short feature?

Started by 30rem

Replies: 2
Views: 6,253

Mar 29, 2006, 10:07
by Already Gone