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Museum Foundation to Present Award
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Tech City, Where Engineering is FUNdamental
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“Making Connections” lecture series to debut
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Energy Encounter
Energy Encounter
Nuclear Power is an important option for the United States and the rest of the world to meet all our future energy needs. Currently, nuclear power plants provide about 17% of the world’s electricity. This exhibit looks at the world’s dependence on all energy forms and how nuclear power will help fulfill those needs. In this exciting exhibit, visitors will learn of the history of nuclear reactor design, future reactor plans, and world energy issues that could be impacted by nuclear power generation. The exhibit features interactive exhibits helping the visitor discover the place nuclear power has in our energy hungry world.
Nuclear waste and its related issues are often hot items in our news. Radioactive waste occurs at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, whether it is from producing electricity or from nuclear medicine applications. Dealing safely with radioactive waste is critical to the environment as well our own safety. Visitors will learn how waste is characterized, treated, handled, transported and stored, as well as options for recycling and reprocessing.
Heritage Park
Complete with planes, rockets, missiles, cannons and nuclear sub sail, this exhibit will attract plane buffs and historians alike. Read More »
The Uranium Cycle
This exhibit explains the processes used to process and dispose of Uranium after use. Read More »
Energy Encounter
The exhibit features interactive exhibits helping the visitor discover the place nuclear power has in our energy hungry world. Read More »
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
While the atomic bomb brought the war to a close, the after-effects of the bomb were felt for years in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read More »
Cold War Fallout Shelter
As the Cold War became a reality, Americans were asked to construct and equip a family fallout shelter. Read More »
Cold War
In this exhibit, visitors will learn how close we came to another war before the end of the Cold War. Read More »
Atomic Culture/ Pop Culture
Every visitor will be entertained while viewing the cultural items surrounding the dawning of the Atomic Age! Read More »
Little Albert’s Lab
The future belongs to the children of today. Little Albert’s Lab will help children of all ages grasp the concepts of physics, the basis of all sciences. Read More »
Decision to Drop
It is said that the dawn of the Atomic Age began with the testing of the world’s first atomic bomb. This exhibit will show visitors just how much influence over the modern world this test created. Read More »
Pioneers of the Atom
Visitors will step back in time to meet the individuals who influenced the nuclear world. Read More »