My Nuclear Life

By Shelly LesherTechnology History Physics

My Nuclear Life episodes

August 29, 2023 How to identify Manhattan Project Plutonium with Cody Folden
How can you find the age of Plutonium? Why is it important? What are the applications? Find out the answer to these questions and more on this episode of My Nuclear Life when Cody Folden joins Shelly Lesher to discuss his paper in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry.
49 min
August 02, 2023 Diefenbunker Bonus
18 min
July 25, 2023 Trying to stay alive at the Diefenbunker with Nathan Radke & Lee Kuhnle
My Nuclear Life and The Uncover Up visit the Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum. Join Shelly, Nathan, and Lee as they journey 75 feet underground to compare how the Canadian Government planned to prepare for their survival versus the Civil Defense measured intended for their citizens.
1 hr 5 min
June 27, 2023 J. Robert Oppenheimer with Kai Bird
Get ready for the summer movie by joining Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird (author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer) as he discusses Oppie's life and science.
1 hr 4 min
June 23, 2023 Fetter & Simpson Bonus episode
16 min
May 30, 2023 The 3rd Nuclear Age with Ankit Panda
What is the 3rd Nuclear Age? Wait, what about the 1st and 2nd? Join Shelly as she speaks to Stanton Senior Fellow Ankit Panda about how the world is grabbling with nuclear proliferation and what challenges we face.
51 min
April 25, 2023 The Origin of the Elements with Artemis Spyrou
Chemical elements make up the matter we observe in the universe but how did they form? How did scientists figure this out and what is left to learn? Artemis Spyrou joins Shelly to discuss the evolution of the elements and the nuclear processes that govern stellar nucleosynthesis.

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41 min
March 28, 2023 NIF fusion was a breakthrough, but what kind? with Bob Rosner
In December 2022, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieved ignition. Join Shelly as she speaks with Bob Rosner about what this milestone means to Stockpile Stewardship and to physics. Also - learn how cool it is to focus 192 lasers onto a tiny little capsule.

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44 min
February 28, 2023 Witnessing the Starfish Prime nuclear test with Jim Burkhart
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to witness an above-ground nuclear weapons test? Shelly is joined by Jim Burkhart who was stationed on the Johnston Atoll in 1962 when the largest nuclear test in outer space was conducted. He will discuss this and other shots during his year "on island" as part of Operation Dominic.
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40 min
February 17, 2023 Radon Bonus (March)
26 min

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On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in…