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On July 19th, 1957, a 2-kiloton nuclear warhead exploded above the heads of five volunteers during โShot Johnโ of the Operation Plumbbob series of US nuclear tests. Why would anyone volunteer to be at ground zero for such a blast, and what happened to them?
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On July 19th, 1957, a 2-kiloton nuclear warhead exploded above the heads of five volunteers during โShot Johnโ of the Operation Plumbbob series of US nuclear tests. Why would anyone volunteer to be at ground zero for such a blast, and what happened to them?
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![Chernobylโs Radioactive Wild Horses
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![Big Nuclearโs Big Mistake - Linear No-Threshold
Nuclear is finally looking up from an informal โkeep your head downโ policy. However, itโs bringing with it a relic โ a part of safety culture that is actually too safe to be practical at a time when it seems like a new reactor is being commissioned every day. What the public doesnโt know is that the fundamental assumption of radiation safety and regulation simply isnโt true. This is the case against Linear No-Threshold.
00:00 Intro
00:56 The Case Against LNT
04:44 The Problem
08:45 The Data
20:50 The Damage
27:15 The Solution
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Mohan Doss. Are We Approaching the End of the Linear No-Threshold Era? Journal of Nuclear Medicine Dec 2018, 59 (12) 1786-1793; DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.118.217182
Sacks B, Siegel JA. Preserving the Anti-Scientific Linear No-Threshold Myth: Authority, Agnosticism, Transparency, and the Standard of Care. Dose Response. 2017 Jul 14;15(3):1559325817717839. doi: 10.1177/1559325817717839. PMID: 28814947; PMCID: PMC5548321.
Siegel JA.A Critical Assessment of the Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis. Clinical Nuclear Medicine Volume 44, Number 7, July 2019 ISSN : 0363-9762/19/4407-0521. DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002613
Tubiana M, Feinendegen LE, Yang C, Kaminski JM. The linear no-threshold relationship is inconsistent with radiation biologic and experimental data. Radiology. 2009 Apr;251(1):13-22. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2511080671. PMID: 19332842; PMCID: PMC2663584.
Joseph Bevelacqua. (2024). The Linear Non-Threshold Hypothesis-A Failed Concept. Qeios. doi:10.32388/RDO6O0.
Hargraves, R. (2025, April 28). Lee Zelden, cut nuclear power costs. Robertโs Substack. https://hargraves.substack.com/p/lee-zelden-cut-nuclear-power-costs
Tell the truth about the health benefits of Low-Dose radiation. (n.d.). https://21sci-tech.com/articles/nuclear.html
Chapin, Douglas M. โNuclear Power Plants and Their Fuel as Terrorist Targetsโ SCIENCE VOL 297 20 SEPTEMBER 2002 https://atomicinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/SciencePaper-9.02.pdf
Cardarelli JJ 2nd, Ulsh BA. It Is Time to Move Beyond the Linear No-Threshold Theory for Low-Dose Radiation Protection. Dose Response. 2018 Jul 1;16(3):1559325818779651. doi: 10.1177/1559325818779651. PMID: 30013457; PMCID: PMC6043938.
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You may have heard of batteries made from nuclear waste, but these new power sources are a bit different. They use the beta decay of carbon-14 to generate a small amount of electricity that could in theory last THOUSANDS of years.
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In light of Americaโs recently announced plans to get a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, this petition says โSAY NOโ to this โRECKLESSโ idea. But is it actually a bad idea?
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In between getting one-shotted by OP bosses, I wondered whether or not the fantastical Erdtree could really get that big. So I spoke to the only exoplanet tree expert in the world...
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![Solving Mass Effectโs Gravity Problem
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Mass Effect is known for its incorporation of real world space science, more so than most other sci-fi games. This certainly has pleased the โsci-fientistsโ of science and gaming enthusiasts like model scientist Salarian Zaddy, Kyle Hill. But, thereโs a problem. For nearly 20 years now, one of the most critical and important Mass Effect mechanics has been WRONG. The gravity systems on โThe Citadelโ just donโt add up. Letโs break it down and figure out why!
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