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Four bonus episodes from the author of Unusual Event, and the soundtrack.

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Fire From The Stone

A Short History of the Atom · about 21 min

About two billion years ago, a natural reactor ran itself underground in Gabon. A short history of the atom: where it came from, what we did with it, and where it might take us next.

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What the Movies Get Wrong

Hollywood, Nuclear Power, and the Stuff That Makes Operators Yell at the Screen · about 23 min

What Hollywood invented, what it got righter than it had any business getting, and what I changed in my own book and why.

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One Bad Day

What Happens When a Nuclear Plant Says Something Is Wrong · about 21 min

What happens on the bad day, and everything that gets built in advance so the bad day has somewhere to go.

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Where It All Goes

The Most Dangerous Thing at a Nuclear Plant, and the Problem Nobody Has Solved · about 19 min

What spent fuel is, why it is so dangerous, where it lives, and the forty-year political failure that left it where it was made.

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The Unusual Event Soundtrack

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