Lauren — excerpt #2

Posted by on Dec 19, 2013 in History | No Comments

The 1930s saw several disparate nuclear physics experiments conducted across the United States and Europe. As understanding of these investigatory endeavors spread – and the threat of global war loomed ever nearer – these scientists knew this awesome power they had discovered would likely play a role in the war effort.  Read full essay

Lauren — excerpt #1

Posted by on Dec 19, 2013 in Anxieties | No Comments

If you had told me even two years ago that, come fall of my sophomore year of college I would be visiting a nuclear power plant, I would have scoffed at the absurdity. And yet here I was, sitting with a handful of my classmates in a van that was rapidly taking me closer and […]