thefogisliftingyourfutureisdeath: end-of-life-entertainment: Proposed concepts for long-time nuclear waste warning messages for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, designed to universally warn far-future Human descendants of buried atomic waste ..read more

thevaultoftheatomicspaceage: Lol what ..read more

uncle-beanbag: cdn-apex-predator: bigwordsandsharpedges: This liquid-fuelled reactor design can’t go into core meltdown because the core is already melted. If it overheads, it simply dumps all the radioactive parts into a big shielded bucket where it cool back down and the reaction stops. This safety mechanism requires no power or human intervention. We already tested this design back in 1965 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their test reactor operated until 1969 without any problems. However, the design was never adopted for two reasons. First of all, nuclear power is tightly regul ..read more

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I rarely post to this blog, and I’m very sorry. Been busy I’m in a bio program at school and I go to a very “Green” college. That’s really neat and all but they are the opposite of green and it’s frustrating. They are the hippie “woke” kind of green that is more words than actual substance, all the while shutting down the local small farmer who is just trying to make ends meet. Anyways, i recently got into a small debate with a classmate during class about Nuclear Energy. I pointed out to my professor that Nuclear energy needs to looked at as a good alternative, as I’m sure most of my follow ..read more

peashooter85: The 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear B-52 Crash On the midnight of January 23-24, 1961 a B-52 Stratofortress took off from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The bomber’s mission was to conduct a regular air patrol over Arctic airspace just in case the Cold War should suddenly become very hot. Shortly after takeoff, the bomber’s pilot, Major Walter Scott Tulloch, noticed a fuel leak coming from the right wing. Suddenly, the plane lost 37,000 pounds of fuel as the leak worsened. Major Tulloch decided to cancel the mission and return to base, but suddenly the right ..read more

bigwordsandsharpedges: This liquid-fuelled reactor design can’t go into core meltdown because the core is already melted. If it overheads, it simply dumps all the radioactive parts into a big shielded bucket where it cool back down and the reaction stops. This safety mechanism requires no power or human intervention. We already tested this design back in 1965 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their test reactor operated until 1969 without any problems. However, the design was never adopted for two reasons. First of all, nuclear power is tightly regulated and it’s a real pain to get any ..read more

sovtime: Крышка атомного реактора РБМК 1-го энергоблока ЧАЭС. Cover of the RBMK nuclear reactor No. 1 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Little squares are where the control rods are are, I believe. Shows how big these things are ..read more

Monticello Nuclear Generating Station is uh, strange. Always been weird to me. The reactor vessel isn’t incased in a dome like most others, and it lacks cooling towers. It also has this odd tower that almost looks like a smoke stack, but it’s…not. Seriously, what is that ..read more

A little fun thing I like to do on google maps is find Nuclear Plants and pick out all the parts. In this example, we’re going to be using Plant Farley, in Dothan Alabama. Not all plants have these. The white “Bunker” is actually a storage shed for emergency supplies. Bulldozers, vests, geiger counters. Anything they could need for any possible emergency, including flooding, earthquake, etc. Not really good at electrical things, but this is where they (Quite obviously) send out the electricity to the grid. I imagine it’s switched and changed to fit different voltage and what not. There ..read more