Inside NASA's Last Moon Mission

This is a very good quality HD video of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in December 1972. I had the privlige of meeting Dr. Harrison Schmidt on two separate occasions.  One was while I was a chemistry student at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 1974.  After his lecture, we went to the Student Union for coffee and to chat.

The next meeting was in the Geology Dept. at the University of Tennessee in 2002.  He even remembered his visit to HSU 28 years earlier.

Can Nuclear Power Plants Resist Attacks or Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)??

Our energy and electronic infrastructure is vulnerable to X-class solar storms and nuclear weapons that are detonated at high altitudes.  It is possible to protect this infrastructure?  New designed nuclear power plants can incorporate systems to provide this protection.  Existing nuclear power plants can be upgraded along with electrical transmission lines.  Read more from this article from Forbes by clicking here.

Milking the Thorium "Cow"

How to produce Actinium from a "cow" of Thorium... Filmed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More links and info in full description.

Was Low-Dose Radiation From the Atomic Bombs Beneficial?

120,000 survivors of the atomic bomb blasts in Japan have been studied since the 1950s.  A recent study done at Shujitsu Women's University has resulted in some interesting conclusions.  Survivors with exposures between 500 millirads and 50 rads of radiation had lower mortality rates than control subjects not exposed to atomic bomb radiation.  Read more here.