History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

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

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Oct 29, 2023, 05:51
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The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

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Jan 17, 2023, 02:52
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CP-1 at 80: The events of December 2, 1942

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Dec 02, 2022, 10:29
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Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

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Apr 06, 2020, 10:13
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Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery

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Dec 12, 2023, 05:53
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The SNAP-10A reactor power system

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Apr 15, 2024, 07:29
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5 Incredible Facts About the Atom Bomb

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May 31, 2021, 07:23
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The secret orders for a courier transporting Uranium 235 from Y-12 to Chicago du

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Jul 24, 2025, 03:29
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The US Army’s Nuclear Power Program in Film

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Feb 27, 2025, 10:58
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Death on Mars

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Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
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The Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor

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Dec 22, 2023, 09:30
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The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

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Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
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Bacteria: radioactive elements replace essential rare earth metals

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May 17, 2023, 03:18
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The Largest Nuclear Test in Outer Space Had Startling Effects on Hawaii

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Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
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Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” at 70

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Dec 08, 2023, 10:18
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World’s Most Dangerous Toy? Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit with Uranium (1950

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Feb 13, 2024, 12:31
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The Most Toxic Tourist Attraction in the World

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Mar 12, 2023, 07:14
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Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

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Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
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Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese wall

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Jan 31, 2023, 02:52
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Wyoming History: Sundance Had First Portable Nuclear Reactor In The United State

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Aug 24, 2023, 12:43
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No ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb’s fallout

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Aug 05, 2023, 10:00
by Marlin

The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Aug 08, 2024, 08:08
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'Nuclear battlefield' revealed as scientists map Bikini Atoll test craters

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Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
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Camp Century: Look back at Cold war history frozen in time

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Nov 28, 2024, 12:57
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The Original Target For The Second Nuclear Bomb

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Aug 09, 2022, 04:27
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Earth's History of Unexplained 'Radiation Storms'

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Oct 26, 2022, 03:10
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7 Moments in December that Changed Nuclear Energy History

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Dec 20, 2023, 03:50
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The Sodium Reactor Experiment

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Feb 23, 2024, 09:42
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Project Rover: The original nuclear-powered rocket program

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Jan 13, 2023, 09:25
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The world watched as Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the U.K.’s Atomic Age

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Sep 23, 2022, 10:11
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Piqua organic-cooled reactor in photo and film

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Nov 05, 2025, 09:57
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Katie the Calutron Girl visits A.K. Bissel Park

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Mar 30, 2024, 10:39
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Why didn’t gamma radiation prevent life on Earth from starting?

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Dec 06, 2023, 01:39
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NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

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Oct 01, 2025, 10:27
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2 killed when vehicle hits West End guard shack in Oak Ridge

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May 08, 2023, 12:56
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There’s Something Odd About the Dogs Living at Chernobyl

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Mar 05, 2023, 02:25
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Clementine—The world’s first fast neutron reactor

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Jun 11, 2024, 09:07
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Strange Life Forms Are Growing in an Abandoned Uranium Mine

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Feb 04, 2023, 12:23
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The US Military Once Detonated a Nuclear Bomb Directly Above the Heads of 5 Offi

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Jul 31, 2023, 12:58
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Atomic Veterans: The Troops America Used As Nuclear Guinea Pigs Following World

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Oct 04, 2023, 12:34
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Secret Atomic Role of WW II–Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

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May 15, 2023, 01:52
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The American reactor that was closed by fake news

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Jan 28, 2024, 01:18
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How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case

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Feb 10, 2024, 02:03
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Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

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Sep 29, 2023, 07:56
by Marlin

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

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Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

The Hanford B Reactor

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Feb 17, 2023, 10:27
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Visitors tour New Mexico atomic site in likely record attendance fueled by 'Oppe

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Oct 22, 2023, 09:15
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The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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Feb 25, 2023, 11:16
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A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

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Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
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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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The fear of a nuclear fire that would consume Earth

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Sep 10, 2023, 01:25
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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
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The legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-I

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Feb 03, 2023, 12:11
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The Curious History of Neutrinos and Nuclear Reactors

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Oct 03, 2024, 10:32
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The Real Father of the Nuclear Age

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Mar 11, 2024, 12:38
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Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

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Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
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Aurora colors: What causes them and why do they vary?

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May 15, 2024, 10:57
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The design and legacy of Experimental Breeder Reactor-II

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Nov 22, 2023, 09:46
by Marlin

Atomic-Powered Aircraft

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Mar 12, 2024, 07:20
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Vaping Regularly May Expose Teens to More Toxic Lead, Uranium, Study Says

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Apr 30, 2024, 10:45
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Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

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Jan 26, 2024, 02:17
by Marlin

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

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Feb 29, 2024, 04:42
by Marlin

Balloon in cooling tower

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Jun 22, 2023, 12:44
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70th Anniversary of Atoms for Peace Speech

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Sep 29, 2023, 02:06
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 Fulton Station project: Inflation kept this HTGR from seeing the light of da

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Oct 24, 2024, 02:27
by Mounder

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

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Jul 30, 2024, 09:46
by Marlin

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

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May 23, 2024, 09:57
by Mounder

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

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Jul 19, 2024, 10:58
by Marlin

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The aftermath

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Aug 07, 2024, 12:52
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Nuclear Energy for Puerto Rico

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Sep 19, 2024, 10:55
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The legacy of the National Reactor Testing Station, today’s Idaho National Labor

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Jul 24, 2025, 11:59
by Mounder

The Aircraft Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Dec 12, 2024, 11:43
by Marlin

Water Boiler Reactor

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May 09, 2024, 01:42
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Honoring Dennis Wilkinson on the 106th anniversary of his birth

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Aug 07, 2024, 09:32
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Manhattan Project Park: Walk through Wheat

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Jul 05, 2024, 04:12
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Argonne National Laboratory’s fast reactors in Idaho

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May 24, 2024, 11:20
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N.S. Savannah and the American Nuclear Society

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Sep 13, 2024, 11:35
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The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

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Dec 10, 2024, 10:24
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This Soviet Submarine Narrowly Avoided Nuclear Disaster: Here's What Went Wrong

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Jun 07, 2024, 06:24
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Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology

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Nov 14, 2024, 02:39
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Regulatory history of non-light-water reactors in the U.S.

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Jul 25, 2024, 10:38
by Marlin

Fast burst reactors: A historical primer

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Views: 2,002

Jul 15, 2024, 10:04
by Marlin

Why X-Rays Can’t Push Interstellar Sails

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Views: 1,997

Jun 08, 2024, 02:23
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Restoration of the NRX Reactor: The First Meltdown (1959)

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Nov 24, 2024, 09:08
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Quantum physicists discover 'negative time' in strange experiment

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Views: 1,994

Oct 07, 2024, 12:42
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How Radiocarbon Dating Unlocks Ancient History

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Views: 1,987

Oct 01, 2024, 05:49
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Map reveals best places to live in the US if nuclear war breaks out

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Views: 1,986

Oct 14, 2024, 10:18
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The origins of The Reactor Safety Study

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Sep 24, 2024, 10:34
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The legacy of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station

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Views: 1,983

Sep 05, 2024, 10:23
by Marlin

Fusion Energy Week begins today

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Views: 1,975

May 06, 2025, 12:53
by Marlin

Throwback Thursday: The legend of SCRAM

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Dec 05, 2024, 10:51
by Marlin

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

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Views: 1,958

Jan 27, 2025, 05:01
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Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Jul 02, 2024, 11:05
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How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

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Jun 27, 2024, 09:38
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Showdown at Shoreham

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Sep 03, 2024, 10:13
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Argonne National Laboratory’s thermal reactor program in Idaho

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Views: 1,910

Jun 27, 2024, 09:34
by Marlin

Jimmy Carter: America’s first nuclear president

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Views: 1,910

Feb 05, 2025, 12:49
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Unique Soviet Monster Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Blast Has Roared Back T

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Views: 1,886

Jan 24, 2025, 05:12
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Nukes Couldn’t Kill Her: Wreck of Battleship USS Nevada Discovered on Ocean Floo

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Views: 1,878

Nov 04, 2025, 09:31
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Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station: Not the reactor you may be thinking of

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Mar 18, 2025, 09:15
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Nuclear Power Reactor Technology, 1950-1953 (Part III)

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Nov 07, 2024, 09:50
by Marlin

We Found an Unexpected Anomaly in the Pacific Ocean

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Feb 14, 2025, 11:58
by Marlin

October 11, 1954: The founding of ANS

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Oct 15, 2024, 10:35
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TVA Prepares to Write Final Nuclear Chapters

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Views: 1,838

Oct 15, 2024, 10:38
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Remembering the Savannah River Plant

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Dec 18, 2024, 10:55
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Squeeze inside a fusion reactor with a Nat Geo photographer

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Dec 07, 2025, 06:24
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The last days of Hallam

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Oct 24, 2025, 09:46
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How To Use Fusion To Get To Proxima Centauri's Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

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Views: 1,735

Jul 07, 2025, 07:06
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The Navy Nearly Built A Nuclear Armed “Super Sidewinder” Air-To-Air Missile

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Views: 1,718

Feb 03, 2025, 03:55
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New Zealand mayor goes nuclear after Trump claims US 'split the atom'

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Views: 1,699

Jan 22, 2025, 04:00
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Splitting the atom: Why saying who was first is complex

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Views: 1,637

Feb 04, 2025, 09:09
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Organic Cooled Reactors: Five Fast Facts!

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Views: 1,628

Apr 17, 2025, 09:29
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Project 81 - An Almost Forgotten Standard Nuclear Plant Project

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Views: 1,552

Apr 03, 2025, 10:58
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The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

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Views: 1,528

Sep 29, 2025, 07:04
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Nuclear History In focus: The Three Mile Island special report

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Views: 1,501

Mar 27, 2025, 09:44
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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project

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Apr 03, 2025, 10:20
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From terrestrial to celestial: NETS connects nuclear professionals with space mi

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Views: 1,486

Apr 10, 2025, 10:42
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Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator

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Views: 1,377

Jul 05, 2025, 05:53
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Trinity Test at 80: American Nuclear Society CEO Craig Piercy reflects on the Ma

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Views: 1,240

Jul 16, 2025, 10:07
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Physicists re-create forgotten experiment observing fusion

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Views: 1,110

Jun 27, 2025, 05:51
by Marlin

The SNAP-10A reactor power system

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Views: 315

Apr 15, 2026, 12:26
by Mounder

Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission

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Mar 17, 2026, 10:44
by Marlin

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

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Mar 13, 2026, 07:17
by Marlin

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

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Apr 04, 2026, 09:16
by Marlin

The first homes on Mars may be alive

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Apr 03, 2026, 02:12
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62 years ago today: The USS Nautilus passes under the North Pole

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Apr 28, 2026, 10:24
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