History
Naval reactors, the Army program, technical history and atomic pioneers.
224 articles in the archive
Core concepts
Most substantial articles
Alvin Weinberg’s liquid fuel reactors 2014-02-06 How Did the MOX Project Get So Expensive? [Redux] 2025-09-03 Licensing demonstration reactors in the United States 2015-09-08 Why did the US Atomic Energy Commission kill Daniels Pile in 1947? 2021-01-16 The First Atomic Age: A Failure of Socialism 2015-12-17 Did the Nuclear Renaissance in the U.S. falter because people ignored lessons from the First Atomic Age? 2017-04-11 Why James Hansen might be underestimating nuclear energy’s growth potential and why Joe Romm is wrong 2016-01-08 Can Gas Turbines Using Nuclear Fuel Change The Energy Game? 2017-08-31 Parnassus Versus Green Century: A Contrast in Styles 2023-10-23 Jerry Cuttler and Mohan Doss add their voices to Calabrese’s challenge to Science Magazine. Rejected – so far. 2015-08-12 JFK’s “Best of the Above” speech at Hanford, WA on September 26, 1963 2013-09-23 Small Reactors, Safety Culture, Safe Design, and Lessons Learned From SL-1 2010-10-06
Common misconceptions
Myth: Civilian nuclear power was a reckless new experiment.
Reality: It descends from the Navy's disciplined reactor program with a flawless at-sea safety record.
Myth: Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are the same technology.
Reality: Power reactors use low-enriched fuel unsuited to weapons; the paths diverge early.
From Nucleation Capital
Source: Nucleation Capital Blue Energy and the Navy’s Blueprint for Powering AI () 2026-01-22 Celebrating the Successful Campaign to Save Diablo Canyon 2022-12-20 Celebrating A Nuclear Win and the Village that Created It 2022-09-07 Manhattan Project Women 2022-05-04 What if nuclear had taken off in the 1970s? 2020-07-04 Advanced nuclear history is made by Oklo 2020-06-15