SciShow: The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century

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Content of the Lesson: Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base also paved the way for important discoveries about the history of Earth’s climate. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon Thumbnail Credit: US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/166/3903/377 https://www.clim-past.net/9/2525/2013/cp-9-2525-2013.pdf [PDF] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL069688 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/mysterious-ice-buried-cold-war-military-base-may-be-unearthed-climate-change https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2616/core-questions-an-introduction-to-ice-cores/ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JD014311 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/556 https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/camp-century https://medium.com/predict/camp-century-americas-nuclear-powered-base-under-the-greenland-ice-sheet-3536f3b5407f https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-project-iceworm https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-secret-cold-war-project-that-pulled-climate-science-from-the-ice/ https://time.com/5585149/arctic-nuclear-history/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/nishimura2/docs/aec-oct68.pdf [PDF] https://books.google.com/books?id=jjdwo4fljmkC&lpg=PA61&ots=Y9ADOfsO2T&dq=Alco%20PM-2A&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q=Alco%20PM-2A&f=false https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/heu/appd.pdf [PDF] https://cires.colorado.edu/news/greenland-and-legacy-camp-century Image and Archival Footage Sources: https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/4529/rec/1 https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/3499/rec/1 https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p266001coll1/id/3968/rec/3 https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/22902 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lumps-of-ice-and-a-chainsaw-winter-ice-sculpture-festival-gm1200935594-344178231 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/huge-tabular-iceberg-floating-in-bransfield-strait-at-susnet-antarctica-gm818527940-132343225 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/many-small-bubbles-on-sky-blue-background-gm184833871-18226207 https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15141coll5/id/654/ https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ice-edge-of-greenland-ice-sheet-gm510391697-46202144 https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.26064 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ice-background-gm511572637-47088472 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dust-scratches-black-background-distressed-layer-gm1166511133-321364887 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/high-resolution-wet-plate-emulation-background-gm689112716-126829551


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