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TIL the set for the 1989 movie “The Abyss” was constructed inside an abandoned nuclear power plant, modified to hold water. When filming wrapped, the set was just left there rather than deconstructed. It remained there until 2007 when it was finally demolished.

by whatilearned August 6, 2022, 4:40 am

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The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

by HistoryBuff August 5, 2022, 10:00 pm

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TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 12:53 pm

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TIL That France finished building a nuclear reactor in 1985 that never entered operation. The project cost over $4 Billion dollars, and the old nuclear facility is now a theme park.

by whatilearned August 5, 2022, 3:04 am

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TIL about nuclear pasta, a theoretical type of matter that is postulated to exist within neutron stars

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 3:08 pm

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TIL that Teflon was first used for the first nuclear bombs. The anti-stick frying pan coating was used to coat valves and pipes in the separation of Uranium, which would corrode other materials much quicker. Only after WW2 was it used for cookware.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 12:38 pm

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TIL that All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over the last 60 years could fit on a football field to a height of approximately 10 yards

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 2:49 am

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TIL about the Atomic Energy Lab. A toy lab set created in 1950 so that kids could create and watch nuclear and chemical reactions. However, merely a year later, it was pulled from shelves as it contained real samples of the radioactive element Uranium in it.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 4:45 pm

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A college professor reminds her class of the next day’s final exam saying, “I won’t tolerate any excuses for you not being there tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that’s it, no other excuses whatsoever”

by cringeyjokesman July 27, 2022, 6:58 pm

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TIL: After shutting down most of its nuclear power plants, Germany is currently burning almost 20GW worth of coal power.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 5:04 pm

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TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 1:20 am

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TIL that there is strong evidence the US sent residents back to the bikini atol post testing of nuclear weapons as it “affords the opportunity for a most valuable ecological radiation study on human beings …” the relocation resulted in many premature deaths and disabilities in newborns.

by whatilearned July 13, 2022, 4:14 pm

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