Watch: NASA’s solar eclipse coverage

August 21, 2017 | 4:21 PM

WASHINGTON — The first total solar eclipse to sweep U.S. coast to coast in nearly a century astounded viewers around the country.

NASA live-streamed the event. Rewatch its coverage of the eclipse on Aug. 21:

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

By Neal Augenstein
August 28, 2020 | 4:55 AM

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.