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61Norwegian heavy water sabotage — Part of World War II The Vemork Hydroelectric Plant in 1935. The heavy water was …
62fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Cf. reactor (def. 4). * * * Introduction also called fusion power plant or thermonuclear reactor a device to produce electrical power from the energy released in a nuclear… …
63isotope — isotopic /uy seuh top ik/, adj. isotopically, adv. /uy seuh tohp /, n. Chem. any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in… …
64Tritium — Infobox isotope background = #ffcccc text color = isotope name = Hydrogen 3 alternate names = tritium, triton mass number = 3 symbol = H num neutrons = 2 num protons = 1 abundance = trace halflife = 4500±8 days decay mode1 = Beta emission decay… …
65Operation Greenhouse — Greenhouse George Information Country United States Test site Pacific Proving Grounds Period April May 1951 Number …
66Isotopes of hydrogen — Hydrogen (H) (Standard atomic mass: 1.00794(7) u) has three naturally occurring isotopes, denoted 1H, 2H, and 3H. Other, highly unstable nuclei (4H to 7H) have been synthesized in the laboratory but not observed in nature.Gurov YB, Aleshkin DV,… …
67Materials science in science fiction — Material science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction. The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology,… …
68Z machine — Operation overviewThe Z machine fires a very powerful electrical discharge (several tens million ampere for less than 100 nanoseconds) into an array of thin, parallel tungsten wires called a liner . The high electrical current vaporizes the wires …
69Dense plasma focus — Plasma gun redirects here. For the science fiction weapon, see plasma weapon (fiction). A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a machine that produces, by electromagnetic acceleration and compression, a short lived plasma that is so hot and dense that it… …
70Nuclear technology — A residential smoke detector is the most familiar piece of nuclear technology for some people Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear power, nuclear… …
