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Skidmore News (blog)
February 13, 2018
In 1986, Nemtsov, then a young and brilliant radio- physicist, began leading protests against the Soviet government's plans to install an experimental nuclear reactor in Gorky. His intellect and charm distinguished Nemtsov within Russia's burgeoning liberal movement, and he won a seat in the ...
MSUToday
January 9, 2018
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission ...
Live Science
December 2, 2017
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission ...
Bellona
July 5, 2017
There were no reports of damage to its two nuclear reactors, but the incident at the city's Baltic Shipyard, in the middle of Russia's second biggest city, renewed environmentalists' concerns over the experimental nuclear reactor baring barge. A release from the emergency services ministry reported the ...
KQED
May 16, 2017
It's been more than half a century since an experimental nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Los Angeles suffered a partial nuclear meltdown, spewing radiation over a period of weeks. Private industry and government agencies followed that with repeated chemical spills, ...
Power Technology
January 3, 2017
The Monju power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is one of two experimental nuclear reactors set up in the 1980s in Japan. The fast breeder reactor was designed to use the plutonium created as spent fuel by other reactors, thus maintaining a reliable power source for Japan's future. However, ...
Deutsche Welle
December 21, 2016
Japan pulls plug on experimental nuclear reactor. It was hoped that the so-called "dream reactor" would burn a plutonium- uranium mix that would yield more plutonium. But the dream remains elusive and the plant faced too costly upgrades in the post- Fukushima era. Japan Kernkraftwerk ...
The Indian Express
December 19, 2016
Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said today, giving up on the decades-old project due to spiralling costs. Once touted as a "dream reactor," the Monju facility was designed to generate more fuel than it consumes ... nuclear reactor
Oxford Mail
October 4, 2016
THE decommissioning of Harwell's former nuclear research station has been mired in controversy after a High Court judge ruled the job had been awarded to the wrong company. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is facing potential damages in the hundreds of millions after Justice Peter ...
Atlas Obscura
July 28, 2016
On December 2, 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was fired up in a subterranean squash court. But instead of a top- secret, sterile laboratory miles from civilization, the reactor went "critical" for the first time in a space directly beneath rows of football field bleachers at the heavily populated University ...
Skidmore News (blog)
February 13, 2018
In 1986, Nemtsov, then a young and brilliant radio-physicist, began leading protests against the Soviet government's plans to install an experimental nuclear reactor in Gorky. His intellect and charm distinguished Nemtsov within Russia's burgeoning liberal movement, and he won a seat in the SupremeÃÂ ...
MSUToday
January 9, 2018
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission mustÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 2, 2017
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission mustÃÂ ...
Bellona
July 5, 2017
There were no reports of damage to its two nuclear reactors, but the incident at the city's Baltic Shipyard, in the middle of Russia's second biggest city, renewed environmentalists' concerns over the experimental nuclear reactor baring barge. A release from the emergency services ministry reported the fireÃÂ ...
Crosscut
June 26, 2017
The ongoing legal fight grew out of the UW's demolition last July of the old More Hall Annex, aka the Nuclear Reactor Building, a structure listed on the National Historic Register. The building had once housed a small, experimental nuclear reactor. But the university tore down the building after a judge ruledÃÂ ...
KQED
May 16, 2017
It's been more than half a century since an experimental nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Los Angeles suffered a partial nuclear meltdown, spewing radiation over a period of weeks. Private industry and government agencies followed that with repeated chemical spills, accidentalÃÂ ...
Power Technology
January 3, 2017
The Monju power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is one of two experimental nuclear reactors set up in the 1980s in Japan. The fast breeder reactor was designed to use the plutonium created as spent fuel by other reactors, thus maintaining a reliable power source for Japan's future. However, theÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 22, 2016
Japan has decided to scrap an experimental nuclear reactor that cost the equivalent of nearly ã7 billion over 22 years - even though it was only operational for 250 days. Government ministers decided to decommission the trouble-plagued “Monju” fast-breeder reactor that had drained government financesà...
Atlas Obscura
July 28, 2016
On December 2, 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was fired up in a subterranean squash court. But instead of a top-secret, sterile laboratory miles from civilization, the reactor went “critical” for the first time in a space directly beneath rows of football field bleachers at the heavily populated University ofÃÂ ...
BusinessKorea
November 3, 2014
The reactor improvement project is to remodel the experimental nuclear reactor that is run by Delft University of Technology, and construct cold neutron ... experimental nuclear reactors, management of radioactive waste, usage of nanomaterials and radiation technology, nuclear medicine, and isotopes.
Business Mirror
September 24, 2017
In Photo: Vapor rises from a cooling tower at the E.ON AG Isar nuclear reactor plant in Essenbach, Germany, on February 9, 2011. E.ON AGÃÂ ...
TRT World
September 7, 2017
The USSR in 1964 also provided the DPRK with a small experimental nuclear reactor, which at its insistence, was put under the inspection ofÃÂ ...
Bellona
July 5, 2017
... in the middle of Russia's second biggest city, renewed environmentalists' concerns over the experimental nuclear reactor baring barge.
KQED
May 16, 2017
It's been more than half a century since an experimental nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Los Angeles suffered aÃÂ ...
wtvr.com
January 18, 2017
At the heart of the Yongbyon complex is a 5 MWe experimental nuclear reactor, at which operations had been suspended since late-2015,ÃÂ ...
Oxford Mail
January 5, 2017
Luke Sproule @OxMailLukeS Education reporter covering Rose Hill, Iffley and Littlemore. Please call me on (01865) 425422. Pluto - one of theÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 21, 2016
It was hoped that the so-called "dream reactor" would burn a plutonium-uranium mix that would yield more plutonium. But the dream remainsÃÂ ...
The Indian Express
December 19, 2016
Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said today, giving up onÃÂ ...
Oxford Mail
October 4, 2016
THE decommissioning of Harwell's former nuclear research station has been mired in controversy after a High Court judge ruled the job hadÃÂ ...
Atlas Obscura
July 28, 2016
On December 2, 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was fired up in a subterranean squash court. But instead of a top-secret, sterileÃÂ ...
Power Technology
January 5, 2017
Japan's Monju experimental nuclear reactor has been plagued by accidents, cover-ups and cost overruns since it came online in 2014.
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
January 5, 2017
The other science mega-projects include an experimental nuclear reactor complex at the Kurchatov Institute; a special-purpose synchrotron radiation source, also at Kurchatov; a center for extreme light studies, in Nizhniy Novgorod; and the IGNITOR ...
PBS NewsHour
January 4, 2017
It is dotted with experimental nuclear reactors that wrote the textbooks on how to generate power by splitting atoms. And now a new chapter is being written here.
Power Technology
January 3, 2017
The Monju power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is one of two experimental nuclear reactors set up in the 1980s in Japan.
The Inquisitr
December 22, 2016
When there's something strange in the neighborhood, it seems the comics are ready to "answer the call." Ghostbusters 101 appears to be the closest thing fans will get to an apology for 2016's big-screen debacle.
LA Observed
December 22, 2016
... laboratory, the property now owned by Boeing (formerly by Rocketdyne) that was used a rocket testing facility and the site of an experimental nuclear reactor that released radioactivity over the San Fernando Valley during a meltdown event in the ...
Deutsche Welle
December 21, 2016
Japan pulls plug on experimental nuclear reactor. It was hoped that the so-called "dream reactor" would burn a plutonium-uranium mix that would yield more plutonium.
Global Times
December 19, 2016
Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said Monday, giving up on the decades-old project due to spiralling costs.
Slate Magazine (blog)
December 13, 2016
Although there were risks to firing up an experimental nuclear reactor in a densely populated area, Fermi's team chose to do it underneath the school's disused football field because they wanted to use student labor to help assemble the atomic reactor.
Jakarta Globe
October 11, 2016
Indonesia's First Experimental Nuclear Reactor Held Up by Budgeting Issues i. The construction of Indonesia's first experimental nuclear power reactor has been delayed over budgeting issues, including an estimation of the approximate cost and a ...
East Asia Forum
September 23, 2016
The restarting of the Yongbyon experimental nuclear reactors in March 2013 signalled a change. This allowed North Korea to modify their strategy and produce greater stockpiles of nuclear materials enabling more tests and accelerated their testing program.
ilVelino/AGV NEWS
August 17, 2016
North Korea on Wednesday resumed processing nuclear fuel for the production of weapons-grade plutonium at an experimental nuclear reactor in the city of Yongbyon north of capital Pyongyang, Japanese media reported, citing North Korean nuclearÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
August 17, 2016
North Korea on Wednesday resumed processing nuclear fuel for the production of weapons-grade plutonium at an experimental nuclear reactor in the city of Yongbyon north of capital Pyongyang, Japanese media reported, citing North Korean nuclearÃÂ ...
The Korea Herald
July 19, 2016
The ITER project, funded and run by seven entities -- including the European Union, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the US -- was launched in 2007 with an aim to build an experimental nuclear reactor that generates cleaner, safer and moreÃÂ ...
Newsweek
July 18, 2016
Founded in 1947 to test experimental nuclear reactors and rocket systems, the laboratory was operated by private aerospace companies, such as Rocketdyne, which later became Rockwell International.
The Korea Herald
July 19, 2016
The ITER project, funded and run by seven entities -- including the European Union, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the US -- was launched in 2007 with an aim to build an experimental nuclear reactor that generates cleaner, safer and moreÃÂ ...
Newsweek
July 18, 2016
Founded in 1947 to test experimental nuclear reactors and rocket systems, the laboratory was operated by private aerospace companies, such as Rocketdyne and Rockwell International, which were doing contract work for federal agencies, chiefly NASA.
Middle East Online
July 12, 2016
Iran will participate in multi-national nuclear fusion project, help build experimental nuclear reactor in southern France.
Miami Herald
April 18, 2016
... a Department of Energy contractor called North American Aviation. Two divisions worked at Santa Susana: Rocketdyne took primary responsibility for aerospace technology and rocket testing.
Everyday ebook
January 13, 2016
On January 3, 1961, three men were killed in Idaho Falls when an experimental nuclear reactor had a meltdown. It is the only fatal nuclear accident in American history, yet it is not well known.
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