What is
What is nuclear energy?
What is a nuclear reactor?
What about nuclear waste?
What is radioactivity?
What is nuclear recycling?
What is a fast reactor?
What is thorium?
What is an isotope?
What is nuclear propulsion?
What is nuclear space technology?
What is nuclear fusion?
What is nuclear engineering?
What is afterglow/decay heat?
What is nuclear non-proliferation?
What is a nuclear moderator?
What is radioactive dose?
History
Nuclear Reactor Development History
Offshore nuclear power plants
Notes on Alvin Weinberg's autobiography
Notes on
Atoms for Peace and War
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?
General History of Nuclear Energy
Historical AEC film about ZPPR
Reactors
CANDU reactors
Molten salt reactors
Traveling wave reactors
Sodium Graphite Reactors
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
Clarifications
Nuclear fuel will last us for 4 billion years
Nuclear energy is low-carbon energy
Thorium myths
How much nuclear waste is there?
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
Fun
Radiation on Flights
Nuclear-friendly statements of famous people
Nuclear Energy Songs
Your random reactor is
Bingo Card Generator
Safety Minutes
Barn Jams!
We should rename nuclear energy
Energy Density Comparison with Nuclear
More!
Real Life Nuclear Engineers
What is a nuclear fuel cycle?
Power and Energy
Fun Nuclear Factlets
Plug-in hybrid electric cars
Solar power
Scale of Energy Usage
How many batteries do you need to store electricity for a night?
Nuclear Sermon
Letter to President-Elect Obama
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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.
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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
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