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Nuclear Music:
Nuclear Music:
Click on the players below to hear songs about Geiger Counters and Super Colliders. (Another is Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking.)
I suggest you leave it play while you browse the rest of this page. Enjoy!
Doris Day sings about Radiation and Geiger Counters!
If you would like to buy the MP3, you can here.
This would be a great theme song when prospecting for hot rocks!
If you would like to buy the MP3, you can here.
Doo-wop by employees of CERN. You don't hear many songs on this subject.
Background on this group is here and video here. (see @2:40)
"Their humorous songs are freely available on their website." here.
Talking Atom (Old Man Atom) blues
This version by Pete Seeger, Vern Partlow composed this popular satirical song "Old Man Atom,"
It had the line, "The people of the world must pick out a thesis, Peace in the world, or the world in pieces".
He was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Nuclear Reading:
Nuclear Reading:
These are the two best books I've come across. Amazon links provided for more detail.
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Nuclear Articles:
Nuclear Articles:
The Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Dangerous Radioactive Material
Related to the photo above.
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A group of young women who joined the Manhattan Project, at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Although they were not allowed to know at the time, they were monitoring dials and watching meters for calutrons, mass spectrometers adapted for separation of uranium isotopes. The enriched uranium was used to make the "Little Boy" atomic bomb for the Hiroshima nuclear bombing on August 6, 1945.
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The Chilling Story of The 'Demon Core
The 3rd core that killed two men.
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
"On a cold wet day in January 1961, Lt. Jack ReVelle climbed out of a muddy hole in the ground, holding a rough, gray sphere the size of a volleyball against his chest." Great story!
(Same topic in Story Corps here.)
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OUT OF GAS! (newest)
A shortage of tritium fuel may leave fusion energy with an empty tank
Nice article that give you a better understanding of fusion reactors and their associated issues and design.
Going further down the rabbit hole, here is an article about mining H3 on the moon.
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A New Disaster is Unfolding in Chernobyl
A clear description about the effects of the Chernobyl disaster, and current effects due to the activity of the invading Russian troops.
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The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets
Right up there with Chernobyl.
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A Chunk of Trinitite ... (Smithsonian article)
Another bit of interesting info about Trinitite
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When X-Rays Were All the Rage, a Trip to the Shoe Store Was Dangerously Illuminating
Video from the FDA Vault: Enlightening story of those shoe x-ray machines from the 50's
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Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off San Francisco Coast
Interesting story of the USS Independence.
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Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe
Building the arch over the reactors.
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How Many People Have Really Been Killed by Chernobyl?
Why estimates differ by tens of thousands of deaths.
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Wild boar around Chernobyl are 1500 times more radioactive but thriving.
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"How much radiation do you absorb? Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been working to answer this question by taking cosmic ray detectors onboard commercial airplanes. Flying since 2015, we have collected more than 22,000 GPS-tagged radiation measurements over 27 countries, 5 continents, and 2 oceans."
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How do you make a warning sign for a nuclear waste site that will still be readable in 10,000 years? Here is a fascinating article on that problem.
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INSIDE the heart of Fukushima's deadly reactor:
New footage shows melted nuclear fuel still clinging to the walls where radiation levels are so high even robots cannot enter
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More Great Nuc Videos:
These videos are fascinating and unusual.
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126 Never-Before-Seen films of Nuclear Tests Released on YouTube.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has just restored and released 126 (and counting) more never-before-seen films on YouTube.
"The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These are the declassified films of tests conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
The first film explains the history and process regarding these films.
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The Atomic City Idaho Explosion
On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil.
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The first 4 light bulbs lit electricity from nuclear power - December 20, 1951.
This was at the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) at the Idaho National Laboratory near Atomic City.
The Idaho National Laboratory facilities are the largest concentration of reactors in the world.
More on the Idaho National Laboratory here.
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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
Please don't try this at home.
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Happy July 4th!
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The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite
Nice info on Trinitite ...
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Surface Mining At The First Ground Zero - Dr. Ralph Pray
I think we owe this man for the current supply ...
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INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
Can't get enough of movies on radiation? Here's a list of a bunch of them.
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Into the Fukushima Reactor: A One-Way Journey for Drones
Some basic info on the effects of high radiation on electronics.
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In 1950s Vegas Exploding A-Bombs Were Cause For a Party
Lively article with great shots of mushroom clouds.
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"Now, a new map of global antineutrino emissions could shed light on our planet's interior, as well as the heat processes that take place within it."
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My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her
An interesting article about nuclear science history, the Curie's, and taking risks for science.
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The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste
Some Manhattan Project history. (An example of Radioactive Toothpaste is here.)
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2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor
Nothing new under the sun? Read about a natural nuclear reactor.
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Here is an amazing series of photos showing the craters resulting from the nuclear tests in Nevada.
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Along the same lines, an animation showing the timeline of nuclear detonations throughout history.
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A firsthand account of what it was like to live in Oak Ridge Tennessee when they were building the bomb.
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In this article, a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station gives his eyewitness account of what happened there on March 11, 2011,
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Why They Called It the Manhattan Project
What happened in Manhattan during the Manhattan Project?
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Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly
I found this to be one of the clearest description of what's currently going on at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
"Miles O'Brien, science correspondent for PBS NewsHour, has produced a series of three must-see investigative reports revisiting the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. His stories explore how the radiation leaks triggered by the earthquake and tsunami are continuing to affect life there, and beyond."
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An interesting article about a study on the effect of radiation on microbes responsible for the decomposition of plant life.
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These People Love to Collect Radioactive Glass. Are they Nuts?
Nice article about Vaseline glass . . .
Radiation Dose Chart
This chart is released to the public domain by its authors. I thought some of you would find it helpful.
From the authors:"I waive all copyright to this chart and place it in the public domain, so you are free to reuse it anywhere with no permission necessary. (However, keep in mind that I am not a radiation expert, and this chart is intended for general public informational use only.)"
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