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Science Thingy 🇺🇸
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The Hallicrafters Co. S-108 shortwave communications receiver. Produced approximately 1959 through 1963 this tube-based super heterodyne receiver was heavy weighing in at 25.8 lbs.














WATCH 👀: Incredible archival footage of the world’s first reactivity-initiated accident experiments at TREAT nearly 60 years ago!

Grok: • @GovNuclear shares 1960s archival high-speed video from Idaho National Lab’s TREAT facility showing one of the first reactivity-initiated accident tests, where a nuclear fuel sample experiences a sudden neutron burst. • The ~100-millisecond event rapidly heats the fuel to extreme temperatures, causing it to glow intensely, melt, fragment, and deform inside a test capsule as captured in the slowed footage. • TREAT experiments like this simulate accident conditions in a controlled environment to determine safety limits and performance of light-water reactor fuels under power transients.

















