Bangladesh discovered by accident that the forests it planted to stop cyclones were also burying carbon at rates that would take tropical forests centuries to match.
In 1977, a modified core slid into the Shippingport Atomic Power Station on the Ohio River in Pennsylvania and quietly began doing something that most nuclear engineers of the era assumed only a sodium-cooled fast reactor could pull off.
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On January 3, 1961, three young servicemen restarting a small Army reactor in the Idaho desert died in about four milliseconds when a single control rod came up 20 inches instead of four. SL-1 remains the only fatal reactor accident in U.S. history — and no one has ever fully explained why the rod moved that far.
A single uranium-235 fission releases about 200 million electron volts — roughly 50 million times what burning one carbon atom yields. That ratio is why a car-sized fuel assembly can power a city for 18 months.
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