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This phrase is absolutely sending me: "After considering ANP facilities in Idaho, Los Alamos and Livermore selected the NTS [to test nuclear rockets] in 1956 as it was close to both laboratories" .....THE NEVADA TEST SITE IS CLOSE? TO ANYTHING?
#VintageNuclear pic.twitter.com/v5DRIs21PC
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I don't really use Instagram for scicomm. I do cross-post my
#vintagenuclear tweets to a dedicated account there (which is pretty dead by now, oops), but I don't use my personal account in the way I do with twitter. And that's a conscious decision based on many of these concepts -
The history of atomic energy & space exploration is extensive. In 1912, French Engineer Robert Esnault-Pelterie theorized radium could provide the propellant force to push a rocket outside Earth’s gravity, during a lecture regarded as the birth of astronautics
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Today is the 74th anniversary of the Trinity test, the world's first nuclear weapon detonation. The Gadget, as it was called, was detonated from a 100-foot tower at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico
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Not decommissioned, so not
#VintageNuclear, but HTR-10 is also worth learning about. Maybe I'll do a thread on that in a few days -
Since I'm finishing up a looong layover in Denver, let's chat about Fort St. Vrain, Colorado's only commercial nuclear plant (short thread) https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1110964788056780800 …
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Poignant, effective, and timely. Need the next-gen superheroes to enter the fray while sustaining the current cast.
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I really like Avenge the Fallen as a theme.
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Today in words I've never seen before but immediately love: nuclearly Found in "Spherical Gas Core Reactor Critical Experiment" published in 1971 by the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as
@INL) for@NASA#VintageNuclear pic.twitter.com/VckwBUbmZE
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In fact, the US government designed a gaseous reactor in 1971! The core was a sphere of UF6 with a diameter of 127 cm and it was reflected by 90 cm of heavy water
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The Akademik Lomonosov isn't the first civilian nuclear-powered ship. The Russian icebreaker Lenin (launch 1957) and American cargo ship NS Savannah (launch 1959) were the first
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A new historical piece by
@AtomicNews is now online: Pool Reactors 1: An Introduction ENJOY a bit of#vintagenuclear#nuclearhistory http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2018/07/26/pool-reactors-1-an-introduction/#sthash.qSku67Gy.dpbs … -
"The INOR-8 story" by H E McCoy https://www.ornl.gov/sites/default/files/ORNL%20Review%20v3n2%201969.pdf … INOR-8 also known as Hastelloy N was developed by ORNL for nuclear aircraft propulsion (Molten Salt Reactor)
#VintageNuclear Picture from: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=C3fFUYXzKdAC&pg=RA2-PA72#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/payHX98P2g
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@nuclearkatie: Front gate of Base Camp Mercury, the closed town within the Nevada Nuclear Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site). Now just Mercury, the town is still inaccessible to the public#VintageNuclear pic.twitter.com/5UKikOf6K7
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Always a fun day at work when training classes involve some
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This is how a Nuclear reactor is operated in the past
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For another source of this kind of thing go check out
@nuclearkatie who shares frequently using the hashtag she invented -#vintagenuclearPrikaži ovu nit -
Nuclear science doesn't stop at producing power but also helps in water production
#VintageNuclear https://twitter.com/iaeaorg/status/976849627805863936 …
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