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hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that I’ve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this

the button doesn’t necessarily say “Elucidate the Rapture” but it does say something that’s kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.

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Thorium: Did you know?

Relatively rare and with few modern applications, thorium nevertheless has the potential to be an extremely important element. Radioactive, though far less dangerous than uranium, this metal could be the key to a safer source of nuclear energy. Uranium nuclear reactors are typically solid fuel plants, which usually have great safety records but, when they do fail, produce disastrous consequences. Thorium reactors would be molten salt reactors (far less common) likely involving a radioactive thorium-fluoride salt.

These types of reactors would require far more maintenance and highly skilled workers to operate, which is probably why they aren’t used yet, but “the system is, at least in theory, meltdown-proof”. The United States even operated a thorium reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1965 to 1969.

Source.

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Henri Matisse

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Green Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus), family Phoeniculidae, Bucerotiformes, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

photograph by Dave Hawkins

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