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Local books: Author’s dream awakens inspiration, intrigue, investigation
Monterey Herald 08 Dec 2024
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‘Fat Man’ Decimated Nagasaki and Became the Last Nuclear Weapon Deployed in Warfare
War History Online 29 Nov 2024
Fat Man was the codename given to the plutonium core nuclear weapon that was developed as part of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory ... Gun-types were given most of the research effort.
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Read more of the story of the 'Father of Oak Ridge' as the Manhattan Project ...
Yahoo Daily News 22 Nov 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce ...
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Read more of the story of the 'Father of Oak Ridge' as the Manhattan Project gets underway
Oakridger 22 Nov 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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Read the story of the 'Father of Oak Ridge' as the Manhattan Project gets underway in WWII
Oakridger 20 Nov 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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Ukraine could have nuclear weapon in months - report
Sott 14 Nov 2024
A government research center has claimed that the country has enough plutonium to build hundreds of crude warheads ... reactors contain an estimated seven tons of plutonium, its authors claimed.
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Ukraine’s Bluster About Making Nuclear Bomb If Trump Scraps US Aid is Desperate Blackmail - Analyst
Sputnik 14 Nov 2024
Ukraine could develop a nuclear bomb within months if the US reduces military aid to Kiev, a UK newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a briefing paper prepared by Ukrainian researchers.
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Kenneth Nichols, the father of Oak Ridge: How he got all of that silver from the Treasury
Oakridger 30 Oct 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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The formation of the Manhattan Engineer District in World War II, included Oak Ridge
Oakridger 16 Oct 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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China’s plutonium isotope breakthrough could help nuclear stability goal
Interesting Engineering 13 Oct 2024
Plutonium-227 is unique because it is “a very neutron-deficient plutonium isotope.” To create this rare isotope, the research team, led by Prof ... “The data fit quite well into the systematics of known plutonium isotopes,” asserted the researchers.
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Kenneth D. Nichols, the father of Oak Ridge: Honing his engineer qualifications (1932-1939)
Oakridger 18 Sep 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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Meet Kenneth D. Nichols' wife: Behind every great man …
Oakridger 12 Sep 2024
In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...
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US nuclear reactor breakthrough unravels plutonium oxide’s secrets at 3000 K
Interesting Engineering 07 Sep 2024
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, which is part of the US Department of Energy, have made a significant discovery by studying how liquid plutonium oxide (PuO2) behaves at extremely high temperatures, up to 3,000 Kelvin.
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Plutonium at popular US spot allegedly comparable to Chernobyl site — but gov’t denies issue
New York Post 27 Aug 2024
A popular hiking trail, Acid Canyon in New Mexico, has “extreme concentrations” of plutonium, new research claims ... “It’s just an extreme example of very high concentrations of plutonium in soils and sediments.
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