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Nuclear Power Essentials
What is a nuclear reactor?
What is nuclear waste?
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What is a fast reactor?
What is thorium?
What is an isotope?
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What is nuclear fusion?
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What is nuclear non-proliferation?
What is a nuclear moderator?
What is radioactive dose?
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Nuclear Reactor Development History
Offshore nuclear power plants
Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' memo
How to Kill Nuclear Power With Good Intentions — A Primer
How did all that energy get in the nucleus?
Digital Nuclear Reactor History Museum
General History of Nuclear Energy
Historical Nuclear Energy Films
Notes on Alvin Weinberg's autobiography
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Atoms for Peace and War
Reactors
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Sodium Graphite Reactors
What is an Advanced Reactor?
Nuclear reactor coolants
Problems
Economics of nuclear power
The Chernobyl Disaster
Parents' memories of the Chernobyl disaster
The Fukushima Accident
What about Hanford?
Reference
Nuclear Power Reading List
Computing the energy density of nuclear fuel
Measuring the Age of the Earth
Interactive Half-Life Calculator
The math behind radioactive decay
Low-dose Radiation Effect Estimator
A primer on energy, greenhouse gas, intermittency, and nuclear
Enrichment SWU calculator
Nuclear energy slide deck for schools, etc.
Energy flow diagram
Nuclear Reactor Risk Assessment
Interesting nuclear links
Nuclear energy factlets and calculations
Clarifications
Nuclear fuel will last us for 4 billion years
Nuclear energy is low-carbon energy
Radiation detectors are amazingly sensitive
Thorium myths
Sodium and Salt are different in nuclear
Greenpeace, CNN, The Hill miss context on radiocarbon release
Tuna are safe to eat after Fukushima
100% renewables can be inadvertently anti-nuclear
Pandora's Revenge: Defending Pandora's Promise
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Radiation on Flights
Nuclear-friendly statements of famous people
Nuclear Energy Songs
The Whatisnuclear Store
Your random reactor is
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Safety Minutes
Barn Jams!
We should rename nuclear energy
Energy Density Comparison with Nuclear
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Real Life Nuclear Engineers
What is a nuclear fuel cycle?
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2025-03-15 The Aircraft Reactor Experiment positive temperature coefficient of reactivity
2025-03-06 Armour Research Reactor
2025-02-25 A nuclear startup will probably not be the next SpaceX
2025-02-10 The Heavy Water Components Test Reactor and the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program
2025-02-03 Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion: Manned Aircraft Progress Report
2025-01-30 No Greater Challenge digitized
2024-12-13 The Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment
2024-11-23 Film digitization announcement: Operating Experience, Dresden
2024-11-13 Restoration of the NRX Reactor
2024-11-08 ASTR Tower Experiment Film
2024-06-04 Fermi 1 breeder reactor booklet from 1960: Atomic Power for Peace and Prosperity
2024-06-01 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Pamphlet
2024-05-22 The Yankee Rowe Story
2024-05-18 Construction of the Sodium Reactor Experiment
2024-05-17 Aqueous Homogeneous Research Reactors
2024-04-07 Naval Research Laboratory Reactor film from 1958
2024-03-16 Six early nuclear reactor films digitized thanks to Last Energy
2023-11-09 Two historical radioisotopes films digitized thanks to ANS
2023-09-22 The PM-1 Final Summary Report received via FOIA
2023-09-19 BONUS for Puerto Rico: a digitized film from 1967
2023-07-12 The Nuclear Ship Savannah -- newly digitized 1964 film
2023-07-05 1961 film, 'Remote Repair and Modification of the HRE-2 Core Vessel' digitized
2023-07-04 The New Power — The Story of the National Reactor Testing Station (1965 film)
2023-07-03 Just digitized: a 1962 film featuring the PM-1 radar-powering nuclear microreactor in Wyoming
2023-07-01 The Nuclear Ship Savannah wooden cube mockup of uranium-235
2023-06-03 329 rare photos from Hallam decommissioning posted
2023-05-29 List of old Atomic Energy Commission videos posted
2023-03-13 Digitization of historical films about Nebraska's pioneering Hallam Sodium Graphite Reactor.
2023-02-04 ZPPR video, reactor types by coolant and moderator, plus cleanups.
2022-12-19 Historical AEC film about ZPPR scanned
2022-09-19 New menu organization and CSS
2021-05-24 Announcing the nuclear reading material page
2020-10-25 Adding context to misleading Greenpeace claims picked up by CNN, others.
2020-09-06 Added new nuclear-positive quotes page
2020-08-08 Better management of RSS coming
2020-08-06 What about the waste
2020-05-17 SVG format updated
2018-02-02 Some updates to whatisnuclear.com
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