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Atomic Energy

Science Health

Half-Life

Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.

Rebecca Moss ProPublica Oct 2018 40min Permalink

The Radioactive Boy Scout

A suburban teen attempts to build a reactor, radioactivity ensues.

Ken Silverstein Harper's Nov 1998 30min Permalink

Science

Wasteland

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

Matt Stroud The Verge Jun 2012 40min Permalink

A Pigeon in Piketown

The shooting death of the last wild Passenger Pigeon, atomic energy, mastodon watering holes, and other footnotes in Ohio history.

Geoffrey Sea The American Scholar Jan 2004 55min Permalink