List of nuclear reactors — Map of all coordinates from Google Map of all coordinates from Bing Export all coordinates as KML … Wikipedia
German nuclear energy project — Germany nuclear energy project The German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch. Active … Wikipedia
nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them … Universalium
Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Established: 1943 Director: Thom Mason Locat … Wikipedia
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited — Infobox Company company name = Atomic Energy of Canada Limited company company type = Crown Corporation foundation = 1952|f location = Mississauga, Ontario key people = Hugh MacDiarmid, President and CEO industry = Nuclear products = Nuclear… … Wikipedia
Atomic Energy Research Establishment — The Atomic Energy Research Establishment (known as AERE or colloquially Harwell ) near Harwell, Oxfordshire was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s.FoundingIn 1945 John… … Wikipedia
NUCLÉAIRE (INDUSTRIE) - Réacteurs nucléaires — De nombreuses réactions nucléaires sont exothermiques et l’énergie dégagée est, par unité de masse, environ un million de fois plus grande que dans les réactions chimiques qui, elles, ne font intervenir que les électrons périphériques des atomes; … Encyclopédie Universelle
Manhattan Project — This article is about the atomic bomb project. For other uses, see Manhattan Project (disambiguation). Manhattan District The Manhattan Project created the first nuclear bombs. The Trinity test … Wikipedia
Windscale fire — The Windscale Piles (centre and right) in 1985. The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain s history, ranked in severity at level 5 on the 7 point International Nuclear Event Scale.[1] The two piles had… … Wikipedia
Nuclear fission — For the generation of electrical power by fission, see Nuclear power. Splitting the atom redirects here. For the EP, see Splitting the Atom. Nuclear physics Radioactive decay Nuclear fission Nuclear fusio … Wikipedia
nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. [1945 50] * * * or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon Bomb or other warhead that derives its force … Universalium