The Demon Core
By Dr. Zoomie
On May 21, 1946 physicist Louis Slotin was conducting a dangerous experiment with a plutonium ...
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By Dr. Zoomie
On my very last day at Naval Nuclear Power School, in addition to doing a ...
Read moreFeel the Burn
By Dr. Zoomie
Roentgen’s discovery of x-rays was easily the most exciting scientific discovery of its time. Here ...
Read moreThe Golden Age of Radium
By Dr. Zoomie
Marie Curie was perhaps the first “rock star” scientist – she was smart, hard-working, attractive, ...
Read moreThe Radiation Propeller
By Dr. Zoomie
When I was in the Navy, at one point I got to stand watch for ...
Read moreAtoms for…pace?
By Dr. Zoomie
At 2 PM local time on January 19, 2006, an Atlas V rocket lifted off ...
Read moreRadioluminescence
By Dr. Zoomie
I’ve been working in radiation safety and related fields my entire adult life (well…except for ...
Read moreCuries and Sieverts and REM – Oh my!
By Dr. Zoomie
So how do you measure something that’s invisible? Something that weighs nothing, that we can’t ...
Read moreThorium – From Lenses to Fuels
By Dr. Zoomie
A little over a decade ago I got a phone call asking me what I ...
Read moreIf the shoe fits….
By Dr. Zoomie
When I was younger I remember my father telling me about when my grandparents took ...
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