Collaborate Disseminate
The discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s brought with it first the threat of nuclear annihilation by nuclear weapons in the 1940s, followed by the promise of clean, plentiful power in the 1950s courtesy of nuclear power plants. These would replace other types of thermal plants with one that …read more
Continue reading The Long History Of Fast Reactors And The Promise Of A Closed Fuel Cycle
The Chicago Pile led to the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb. In Germany, there were similar efforts with less success, and now we have physical evidence from the first attempted nuclear reactor in Germany. In Physics Today, there’s a lovely historical retrospective of one of the …read more
A park safety manager reveals that three buckets of uranium ore were sitting in a museum storage basement, starting in 2000. Continue reading Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed to Radiation For Years
Policy experts and heads of states have wrung their hands about the weaponization of nuclear energy programs for decades. Continue reading Nuclear Energy Programs Rarely Lead to Nuclear Weapons