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Toeing the water of my home pool in Williamsburg, Virginia, I grumbled that today’s swim would be hot as a nuclear reactor. Well, maybe not quite 10 times hotter than the sun, which according to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is what occurs in a fusion reactor. Still, the 94F water I was about to…
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DOE-Oakridge (1961). Overall View of Oak Ridge Pool DOE Photo by Ed Westcott Oak Ridge Tennessee July 1961. https://www.flickr.com/photos/doe-oakridge Accessed 10 January 2024. Public domain. In the summer of 2021, after more than a year of quarantine and masks and “safer at home,” we fled. We packed up Stickers, our trusty van, and hit the…
