Show threadJL Johnson Jan 4, 2025

Today’s #TMYK (3/365) is also a #PSA: The guidelines for visiting the Trinity test site (location of the first nuclear weapon detonation) have been revised.

Visitors are now permitted only one day per year (used to be two) and the Alamogordo Caravan has been indefinitely canceled. 😭

There is good news, though. Signups are no longer required and it doesn’t seem there’s a cap on attendance.

I know where I plan to be on October 18!

Deets: https://home.army.mil/wsmr/contact/public-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house

#NuclearHistory #AtomicHeritage #manhattanproject

Show threadJL Johnson Dec 28, 2024
We must be close to the good stuff #Knoxville #NuclearHistory #AtomicHeritage #OakRidge
JL Johnson Dec 28, 2024

Good morning from #Knoxville, Tennessee! Today we’re heading to American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. Should be a lot of fun for adults and kiddos. And we get to cross off another item on our #NuclearHistory to-do list.

#AtomicHeritage #OakRidge

JL Johnson Dec 20, 2024

On this day (12/20) in 1951, researchers at Argonne Natl. lab powered four 200-watt light bulbs via EBR-1. The first proof-of-concept for nuclear power for electricity, not bombs.

This is such a big deal I have it in mine and @Jillianmarisa’s shared calendar. Another point of interest is Patrick Stewart’s birthday but that’s a toot for another day.

#NuclearHistory #NuclearPower #AtomicHeritage #Argonne #OnThisDay #OTD