Time Moves Faster Upstairs insidescience.org/news/time-move…

120 years ago #OnThisDay, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of the element radium (Ra) bit.ly/2rWnlqY

From maintaining the #nuclear #stockpile to powering the U.S. Navy to keeping the world safe from #radiological threats, #NNSA had a great year! Watch more about our accomplishments in 2018. #YearinReview

1/13/1939: Otto Frisch observes fission by detecting fission fragments in ionization chamber, confirming Meitner's theory that under certain circumstances, a nucleus could burst apart & release energy. W/help of William Arnold, Frisch coins term "fission." ow.ly/NBcs30nhcb9

Mid-January 1934: Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie conduct the first demonstration of artificial radioactivity. For more on the Joliot-Curies' discoveries and their legacy, check out AHF's new program on France and the Atomic Age. ow.ly/NYnL30nhcYY Nuclear Diner

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Happy International Year of the Periodic Table! It's 150 years since the idea was first conceived by Dmitri Mendeleev. ...Who likes trivia? 🙋 #IYPT2019

With only four days left until #Atlanta hosts #superbowl, #NNSA’s AMS and RAP teams are hard at work to help keep people safe during this national event. Super Bowl energy.gov/nnsa/articles/…

#NNSA's Office of Secure Transportation and its predecessor agencies have a long history of safely moving special #nuclear material around our Nation. Take a look at the vehicles they've used to do it since the 1940s. #TBT #trucking #federalagents

#OnThisDay in 1939, Lise Meitner publishes her discovery that atomic nuclei split during some #uranium reactions and coins the term #fission. osti.gov/opennet/manhat…

Today, Daniel R Simmons announced the opening of a new Battery Recycling Center at Argonne National Lab #NationalLab that will recycle critical materials from lithium-based battery technologies and ensure America’s economic growth and security. go.usa.gov/xEU65

Mo-99 is a critical tool in healthcare that doctors count on every day. U.S. Department of Energy announced additional funding to support a reliable, redundant domestic supply of a vital medical isotope, reduce dependence on imports, & bring new opportunity to the U.S. energy.gov/articles/depar…

.U.S. Department of Energy and #NNSA take another step toward establishing a reliable domestic supply of vital #medical #isotope Mo-99 with the selection of four U.S. companies to negotiate possible cooperative agreements.

Here’s why you shouldn’t cremate radioactive dead people arstechnica.com/science/2019/0…

Radiotherapy has been essential to cancer treatment for over 100 years. Share if you think radiation therapy is worth supporting.

On this day, in 1942, Plutonium was given its name. Pu-238, with a half-life of 87.7 years, was the perfect power source for radioisotope thermoelectric generators that enabled the first deep space flight in 1961 to NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto in 2006.

April 1942: Glenn Seaborg arrives at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. He begins work to develop an industrial-scale process to separate and purify plutonium. atomicheritage.org/tour-stop/jone… Argonne National Lab

#OTD in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defends her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris – becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree.

Environmental News Network - Six Degrees of Nuclear Separation enn.com/articles/60208…

Belgium starts producing Mo-99 using LEU : Regulation & Safety - World Nuclear News world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Belgi…