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acidburnNSA

11,571 karma · joined December 11, 2013

Nuclear engineer and consultant in the DC area. If you want to talk about how best to push the envelope in nuclear, I'm in!

Mostly interested in reactor development: https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

And nuclear economics: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

Nuclear education page: https://whatisnuclear.com

Hobby blog: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisnuclear

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Department of Energy Celebrates First Advanced Reactor Criticality

energy.gov·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Silicon Valley's Risky Plan to Revive Nuclear Power in America

bloomberg.com·4 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Who Is Valar Atomics?

utahinvestigative.org·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion: Manned Aircraft Progress Report 1956-1958 [video]

youtube.com·1 pts·acidburnNSA·
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ASTR Tower Experiment Film: The Reactor That Flew (1958)

whatisnuclear.com·1 pts·acidburnNSA·
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MANIAC: An Early Mainframe Computer at Los Alamos (~1956) [video]

youtube.com·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Show HN: Digital Superpowers, a free book highlighting various FOSS tools

digitalsuperpowers.com·91 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Direct Conversion of Energy (1964)

osti.gov·1 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Microsoft Training AI to Do Paperwork to Build Nuclear Power Plants

futurism.com·4 pts·acidburnNSA·
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The Nuclear Ship Savannah – newly digitized 1964 film

whatisnuclear.com·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Oklo (YC S14), an Advanced Fission Company, to Go Public via Merger with AltC

businesswire.com·5 pts·acidburnNSA·
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US supercomputer breaks exascale barrier

world-nuclear-news.org·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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How to Kill Nuclear Power with Good Intentions – A Primer (2001)

whatisnuclear.com·26 pts·acidburnNSA·
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The Los Alamos Computing Facility During the Manhattan Project

tandfonline.com·4 pts·acidburnNSA·
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National Weather Service weather radar website disaster as Flash retires

cliffmass.blogspot.com·19 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg (1946-1958)

babel.hathitrust.org·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Why are nuclear reactors expensive?

whatisnuclear.com·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Nuclear Reactor Development History

whatisnuclear.com·1 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Science and Trans-Science by Alvin Weinberg (1972) [pdf]

science.sciencemag.org·3 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Mapped: The world’s coal power plants

carbonbrief.org·168 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Notes on Alvin Weinberg’s Autobiography, the First Nuclear Era

whatisnuclear.com·1 pts·acidburnNSA·
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How to change the pitch of your voice live on Linux with JACK Rack

digitalsuperpowers.com·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming (2018)

energy.stanford.edu·151 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Self-Publishing a Book with ReStructuredText, Sphinx, Calibre, and Vim

digitalsuperpowers.com·16 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Computers, a Booklet from the US Atomic Energy Commission (1967) [pdf]

osti.gov·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Magnetic-core memory

en.wikipedia.org·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Measuring the Age of the Earth (2014)

whatisnuclear.com·18 pts·acidburnNSA·
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Measuring the Age of the Earth (2014)

whatisnuclear.com·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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A primer on energy, greenhouse gas, intermittency, and nuclear

whatisnuclear.com·2 pts·acidburnNSA·
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The Hero Jr. personal robot from HeathKit: a 1984 product way ahead of its time

partofthething.com·30 pts·acidburnNSA·
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