What is Nuclear?

Announcing the publication of 3 nuclear films from the 1980s-90s: one with 90’s kids explaining nuclear power, one with the famous rocket-powered trucks and trains hitting test casks, and a fun one about nuclear fusion.

Reactor discussions are most productive when informed by a clear understanding of the reactors involved.

Much can be known about a nuclear reactor from relatively simple analysis tools.

Here’s the Dunning-Kruger effect as envisioned by Rickover.

Everyone says nuclear power is over-regulated.

From Voss In the early 1990s, the USA purchased 6 TOPAZ-II space nuclear reactors from the USSR/Russia and flew them to New Mexico for testing.

The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant (CRBRP) Project was a massive US-government nuclear reactor development project that aimed to build a prototype fast-neutron breeder reactor.

Originally, ORNL designed the Aircraft Reactor Experiment as a sodium-cooled, beryllium oxide-moderated, solid UO₂ fueled reactor.

The Armour Research Reactor was a small homogeneous-type nuclear reactor with uranyl sulfate fuel dissolved in water.

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