⚛🍿! @LastEnergy has generously sponsored the digitization of 6 historic nuclear films, and I just posted 5 of them for your viewing pleasure. As before, these have been sitting on 16mm film, mostly unseen for ~60 years...until today! whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-…

Mar 17, 2024 · 12:00 AM UTC

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First up is the Army Package Power Reactor, aka APPR-1, aka SM-1, in Ft. Belvoir. This was the prototype that made all the other Army reactors possible. From 1957. youtube.com/watch?v=4NH2AUAn…
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Then we have a more general B&W one from 1959 that talks about energy in general, and then discusses the 5-prong approach the US was taking to find economical power: SFR, SGR, PWR, AHR, and BWR. youtube.com/watch?v=Zukgzn47…
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Fourth, we have a short film from the third international "Atoms for Peace" conference in 1964 summarizing the world's first commercial thorium-fueled reactor: Indian Point 1. It talks about how U was expected to be limited. youtube.com/watch?v=1sWqmPyo…
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In the same series, we have this one about Yankee Rowe, the highly-successful PWR that really gave the industry what it needed in terms of simplicity, reliability, and project delivery (on time, on budget!) youtube.com/watch?v=WSMGNuYI…
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Number 6 is sadly not yet posted, because it didn't come with a soundtrack. It is about the Naval Research Laboratory Reactor. It's the highest quality scan, so I'm quite excited about getting the audio.
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I summarized all these briefly on the announcement page linked at the top and included ~20 of my favorite screengrabs from each so you can pick the order you'd like to binge-watch these. ENJOY! And again, huge thanks to the team at @LastEnergy for making this happen.
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Update: the Naval Research Laboratory Reactor one is up!
Check out this historical film describing the Naval Research Laboratory Reactor. It was first shown at the 1958 'Atoms for Peace' conference! This is the 6th film digitized in our latest batch. Finally got the soundtrack. Thanks again to @LastEnergy! whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-…
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Thanks for sharing, Nick. Great information.
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You're welcome! It's super fun for me to dig these up.
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Thank you to Brett’s everywhere. -Nick Touran (fixed that for you)
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They're just so helpful.
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Great effort Nick! I've planned these out over a few ays on Mastodon, to reach the maximum audience. These videos deserve it 🥰
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Great, thank you!
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I always knew you nuksters were living in the past, before we discovered the truth about nukes.
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Hey, even you anti-nuksters can enjoy a good digitization effort, right?
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Some of these older videos do a vastly superior job of explaining mathematics and engineering.
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