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John A.

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Wasn't there more nuclear bombs that have been lost?

Seems like one was in a swamp somewhere in the deep southeastern us.

Another around Iceland or the artic somewhere.

And I just find out about these nukes that were recovered from North Carolina.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb475/
 
There was a nuclear accident in Charlestown, RI in 1964 that claimed a man's life and possibly caused cancer of his widow when she held his hand as he was dieing... :( LINK. I remember reading about it in the 90s.

Ironically, not long after while a student, I took a tour of a research reactor at URI in nearby Narragansett--the Bay Campus. That is the big white square building in the picture. We went in the ground floor and got our radiation "badges" then climbed a number of stairs to get to the top of the pool. It is a very low-level reactor used to test environmental samples. We were standing on a platform looking down into a deep pool of water, I'd say 30' or so. At the bottom of the pool we could see the blue glow of radiation. :eek: The water above kept the radiation from getting to us. The way it worked is they would put the samples in a tube not unlike the teller tube in a bank drive-thru and send them down next to the nuclear reaction where they would be acted upon by the reaction. I can't really describe the science behind it but by analyzing the nuked samples they could tell what elements were in it or something like that... ;)
 

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We had a small heavy_water reactor when I was in school, but I only looked into it once. Really not much interest in things too radioactive.

It was a very spooky feeling.

I got the same feeling at Thiokol, where they mix rocket fuel in giant Sunbeam Mixmasters, just beyond the glass . . .

There's a reason they do that way out in the desert.
 
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