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The brand new NS Savannah in 1962. Source: US Government / Public Domain.
28 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

The NS Savannah and the Brave New World of Nuclear Shipping

Nuclear power is perhaps one of the most divisive inventions in history. Its advocates point to almost unlimited energy with minimal pollution and waste, providing power for an ever-more power hungry world.…
It is theorized that the mastaba tombs which surround the earliest Egyptian pyramids, including those at Giza, may be designed to contain deadly radioactive uranium. Source: MagisterDawn / CC BY 3.0.
12 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

The Radioactive Guardian of the Egyptian Afterlife

The pyramids were old for most of Egyptian history. Of the three great kingdoms that this old and powerful civilization spawned, it was the Old Kingdom who were known as the pyramid…