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Did you know? Natural nuclear fission reactors existed 1.7 billion years ago at the Oklo site in Gabon! Unique geological conditions and isotopic anomalies reveal fascinating insights into nuclear processes and waste management. #Science #NuclearHistory #OkloReactors #Innovation #Geology
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Today’s #TMYK (3/365) is also a #PSA: The guidelines for visiting the Trinity test site (location of the first nuclear weapon detonation) have been revised.
Visitors are now permitted only one day per year (used to be two) and the Alamogordo Caravan has been indefinitely canceled. 
There is good news, though. Signups are no longer required and it doesn’t seem there’s a cap on attendance.
I know where I plan to be on October 18!
Deets: https://home.army.mil/wsmr/contact/public-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house
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We must be close to the good stuff #Knoxville #NuclearHistory #AtomicHeritage #OakRidge
Good morning from #Knoxville, Tennessee! Today we’re heading to American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. Should be a lot of fun for adults and kiddos. And we get to cross off another item on our #NuclearHistory to-do list.
On this day (12/20) in 1951, researchers at Argonne Natl. lab powered four 200-watt light bulbs via EBR-1. The first proof-of-concept for nuclear power for electricity, not bombs.
This is such a big deal I have it in mine and @Jillianmarisa’s shared calendar. Another point of interest is Patrick Stewart’s birthday but that’s a toot for another day.
Where the Malan Blooms.
60 Years After the First #Chinese #NuclearBomb.
"Malan, a type of iris, is also the name of China’s only nuclear arms testing base, and 21 was its military unit number. Situated on the northwestern edge of Lop Nur in Xinjiang, it’s named after the eponymous plant common in the arid landscape. The Chinese government formally acknowledged the site in 1987. Since then, the blossoming of the malan has become a euphemism for the Chinese nuclear weapons program, inscribed in military ballads and school plays.
This October 16 marks the 60th anniversary of the testing of the first Chinese nuclear bomb. When my friends and I coiled up our jump ropes and returned to class, we learned inspirational tales about the earliest generation of Chinese nuclear scientists, who left the comfort of home for the northwestern frontier and toiled in anonymity to forge the country’s atomic shield. In the same classrooms and from the same textbooks, we also marveled at our motherland’s vastness and diversity: every inch on the map had been part of China since time immemorial, and the Han majority and all 55 ethnic minorities constituted one big happy family."
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/china-nuclear-bomb-60-years
ChinaFile · Where the Malan BloomsThis October 16 marks the 60th anniversary of the testing of the first Chinese nuclear bomb. When my friends and I coiled up our jump ropes and returned to class, we learned inspirational tales about the earliest generation of Chinese nuclear scientists, who left the comfort of home for the northwestern frontier and toiled in anonymity to forge the country’s atomic shield. In the same classrooms and from the same textbooks, we also marveled at our motherland’s vastness and diversity: every inch on the map had been part of China since time immemorial, and the Han majority and all 55 ethnic minorities constituted one big happy family.
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@ikluft @cvvhrn this is my kinda stuff. Love me some #nuclearhistory
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(2/2) curriculum in my web design or computer programming class next year)
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and me in an interview about our new book, the Soviet Nuclear Archipelago, published in Central European University Press.
New Books NetworkPer Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023) - New Books Network
The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2023-07-18/presidential-nuclear-football-eisenhower-george-w-bush
+ the photos... https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2023-07-09/presidential-football-eisenhower-george-w-bush/part-iii-photos
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nsarchive.gwu.eduThe Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush | National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the federal government sweeping emergency powers were of “doubtful legality,” “badly out of date,” and “even illegal,” according to top government officials whose views are memorialized in declassified records posted today by the National Security Archive.
"what we are referring to when we talk about the possible resumption of nuclear testing is not the latter sub-critical testing, but some version of atmospheric, outer space, underwater, or underground explosives testing" https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-03/the-horrors-of-nuclear-weapons-testing/ #NuclearHistory #AtomicScientists
Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThe horrors of nuclear weapons testingPeople today seem to have forgotten—if they ever knew—what a single nuclear weapon can do. The inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, whose home was turned into a nuclear proving ground, have certainly never forgotten.
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@ikluft @elaterite gosh this is super interesting to me. @Jillianmarisa and I are really into #NuclearHistory so it’s really up our alley. Adding to our to-do list 
Fallout shelters are spooky but this one is extra spooky!
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Today, in 1951:
Experimental Breeder Reactor 1 (EBR-I) produces the world’s first usable amount of electricity from nuclear energy, lighting four electric light bulbs.
EBR-I was originally referred to as CP-4 or “ZIP,” short for “Zinn’s Infernal Pile.”
https://www.anl.gov/nse/argonnes-major-nuclear-energy-milestones
I have this milestone in mine and @Jillianmarisa's shared calendar. #NuclearHistory nerds.
www.anl.govArgonne's Major Nuclear Energy Milestones | Argonne National Laboratory
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@stevegio @AstroMigration I have long wanted to visit but somehow forgot to last time in ABQ. Added it to a it’s I have in google maps as a reminder this time. 
If you have time, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is absolutely amazing if you are into #nuclearhistory
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Great story by Ars talking about these #uranium cubes I posted about back in May. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-tale-of-lost-ww2-uranium-cubes-shows-why-germany-s-nuclear-program-failed #NuclearHistory
PocketThese WW2 Uranium Cubes Show Why Germany’s Nuclear Program Failed“The story of the cubes is a lesson in scientific failure, albeit [one] worth celebrating.”
We’re going to go see #Oppenheimer. Big #NuclearHistory fans here so hoping it’s a good one. At three hours, it better be!
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@ikluft I want to visit. Apparently it’s a once per year thing and a real pain. We have some Trinitite which we picked up at the Natl Museum of Nuclear Science in ABQ. Was pretty awesome Museum. Big fans of #NuclearHistory over here