Did the 39th president of the United States save the Capital city of Canada from nuclear destruction? — If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, you may have seen a recent tweet from Professor Jeff Lundeen of the University of Ottawa, hailing an unlikely hero of Canada’s capital city… former U.S. President Jimmy Carter? In 1952, Canada’s premier nuclear research reactor, called NRX, underwent a…

A recent Twitter thread by @darth placed the “Avenge The Fallen” tagline of the upcoming Avengers: Endgame movie on top of deceased characters. So, in the spirit of fun-yet-educational content, I created this series of images about decommissioned commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S. This post is expanded off…

Starting in 2016, the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp has revolutionized the way that students and early career professionals have viewed innovation in the nuclear energy industry. Traditionally a slow-moving field, nuclear power is starting to shake things up and embrace the startup culture. In 2015, Third Way tracked down approximately 50…

Attending university visit weekends as a potential graduate student was one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever done as a student. I learned a lot about myself, gained vital information in the search towards the best graduate experience, and made some fantastic friends along the way. Here are my…

The narrative around climate change mitigation has been dominated by the “Green New Deal” proposal popularized by freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). The final text of the resolution, introduced with Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), was recently released and is available here. …

Women’s History Month is a time to reflect back on the contributions of women, and to look forward to their potential. In nuclear science, there is a rich history of female physicists and engineers contributing to our field along with their male counterparts. …

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was a medical physicist and won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with her partner Solomon Berson for the development of radioimmunoassay (RIA). Born in 1921 in New York City, Dr. Sussman Yalow became interested in mathematics and chemistry at an early age. She…

Happy Women’s History Month! Each week during the month of March, one woman from the history of nuclear science and technology will be featured on the ANS Nuclear Cafe. As a woman and a nuclear engineer myself, I am honored to have so many female role models to look up…