Nathan Ryan

So this woman made a tiny bit of paint with yellowcake and someone else made a bunch of videos, doxxed her, and reported her to the NRC over it.

Aaaaand she responded by making a 30 min video mostly about nuclear power and radiation, in consultation with an expert. Good for her.

flow chart showing reactor lineage from CP-1, LOPO, HYPO, X-10, CP-2, CP-3, The hanford reactors, Clementine, SIR, Seawolf, EBR-1, MTR, STR, Nautilus, and Shippingport

Early lineage of all (*most) reactors that came later

First flowers I’ve seen this season!

Picture of Jeremy Mettler presenting his PhD defense in a packed room of people (it was so full we had people sitting on the floor and standing around the edges).

Congratulations on your defense Dr. Mettler, the only person who could convince me to drive across the country

Chernobyl's protective shelter damaged 'by drone strike' International Atomic Energy Agency staff at the Chernobyl site say "radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable" after a drone was reported to have struck the roof of t...

International Atomic Energy Agency staff at Chernobyl say "radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable" after a drone was reported to have struck the roof of the shelter built over the remains of the reactor destroyed in the 1986 accident.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/che...

Using Pu-242 has resulted in some of the best colors I’ve ever seen as a chemist. 🤩

@realtimechem.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

#plutonium #realtimechem #fblockrocks #radiochemistry

panera is just bread taco bell

It’s also the name of a book about politicians communicating science (if you want to see more such methods) www.davelevitan.com/not-a-scient...

I downloaded the data in April of last year for a project if people want it or need access. It wasn’t distributed with a license, so I’m unsure how to proceed

I don’t know how to identify if it was removed, but I have noticed that I can’t connect to the climate and economic justice screening tool

screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/#3/33.47/...

The White House President Biden and Vice President Harris promised to move quickly to deliver results for working families. That’s what they’ve done.

Hitting a 404 when looking for something from the prior White House website? Here's a link to the archive.

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov

Let's make "Ma'am this is a map store" into the positive counterpart to "Sir this is a Wendy's"

I do not want ai in my Instagram I do not want ai in my Snapchat I do not want ai in my Google searches I do not want ai summaries of Facebook comments I do not want it

A PhD student in my group brilliantly & successfully defended his dissertation today. As an advisor, nothing beats that moment when the committee finishes discussion, I open the door, shake their hand, and call them by their new title.

Congratulations Dr. Park!

#phdsky #academicsky #nukesky

YouTube video by U.S. Department of Energy #SeeYourselfInNuclear: Artist Chloe Hsu

Chloe is incredible! I love this style and branding - so glad DOE has her support to help get information to kids!

I have "Fozzymandias" stuck in my head and have absolutely no idea whatsoever to do with it. "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and wokka wokka"? That's nothing. Infuriating.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the day for December 11, 2024. The picture has the Merriam-Webster logo in the upper right corner and reads: Word of the Day: December 11, 2024 Sublimate Verb SUB-luh-mayt To express a feeling or desire in a more acceptable way

I have to disagree with the definition they chose, sublimation (see any chemistry textbook) is too cool of a thing to be overlooked like this

US regulators approve eVinci microreactor I&C platform The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the instrumentation and control platform for Westinghouse Electric Company's eVinci microreactor. ;

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the instrumentation and control platform for Westinghouse Electric Company's eVinci microreactor.
www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/us-...

You can find a general blueprint of what we did here

Chicken: nsryan.github.io/meals.html#s...

Ice cream: nsryan.github.io/sweets.html#...

The one good thing about our crumbling infrastructure is it makes the trolley problem irrelevant. You want me to pull the lever and choose who dies? Buddy, the trolley is experiencing delays, I've got time to untie everybody.

Dinner plate with thin strips of fried potato atop a spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breast. In front of the chicken is a stack of potato sheets stuffed with cheese and spinach with red pepper flakes on top. Filling the rest of the plate is roasted asparagus with some roasted potatoes (we used the leftover bits from the potato sheets to make little quarters).

A bowl with a single scoop of ice cream that has flecks of black pepper visible throughout. Nestled between the ice cream and the bowl is a thinly-pressed, lemon waffle cookie with rough edges.

Spinach and goat cheese stuffed chicken with crispy “skin” (made out of potatoes) with a cheese stuffed potato sheet and grilled asparagus. We also had confit chili garlic and brown sage butter. For desert we made black pepper ice cream with lemon waffle cookies.

I propose that engaging in the infinite scroll on bluesky be called skydiving.

Second snow of the year and the students are using it to study

YouTube video by Argonne National Laboratory Chicago Pile-1: A Brick History

Happy World Nuclear Energy Day!

Dec. 2 marks the anniversaries of both the first human induced self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (as dramatized below)

AND

the day the first nuclear power plant reached the same milestone at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania.

#NukeSky

Me sitting with my legs crossed on a stone cube that reads: “THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR WAS REBUILT AT THIS SITE IN 1943 AFTER INITIAL OPERATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS REACTOR (CP-2) AND THE FIRST HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTOR (CP-3) WERE MAJOR FACILITIES AROUND WHICH DEVELOPED THE ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY THIS SITE WAS RELEASED BY THE LABORATORY IN 1956 AND THE US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION THEN BURIED THE REACTORS HERE”

OTD (12/2) 82 years ago CP-1 became the first self sustained human-made nuclear chain reaction.

I haven’t made it to the site where they built CP-1, but one summer I did hike with some friends to where CP-2 is buried (it wasn’t that hard, it’s just not on the path).

A partially stacked set of graphite bricks with uranium spheres in little holes in the middle of some, as CP-1 was being built.

A vessel hanging above the floor with dozens of cables going into it. This is the shippingport pressurizer.

Happy December 2nd, a day that marks the first man-made nuclear chain reaction (CP-1, 1942) and the first chain reaction in the first purely civilian nuclear power plant exactly 15 years later (Shippingport, 1957).

That’s hundreds of people a day! Every month in the last year we’ve broken our service record and we’re only able to do lunches

The soup kitchen I volunteer at is pretty well-established, but, with the growing demand, we’ve been talking about opening a second location and one of them could easily help hundreds of people with a little cash. We’re getting close to expanding, but cash is the limiting factor

Orin feels close, but maybe not exactly right. I like it though!

Auggie 🤩🤩, so cute!