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101Pool-type reactor — NC State s PULSTAR Reactor is a 1 MW pool type research reactor with 4% enriched, pin type fuel consisting of UO2 pellets in zircaloy cladding …
102FBTR — [ [http://www.igcar.ernet.in/press releases/press15.htm A creditable performance at Kalpakkam ] ] The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is a breeder reactor located in India.HistoryIt first reached criticality in October 1985. The Indira Gandhi… …
103Wolfgang Gentner — (23 July 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ndash; 4 September 1980 in Heidelberg) was a German experimental nuclear physicist.Gentner received his doctorate in 1930 from the University of Frankfurt. From 1932 to 1935 he had a fellowship which allowed him …
104mass spectrometry — or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. A mass spectrometer uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions, while a mass spectrograph …
105Radioactive contamination — The radiation warning symbol (trefoil) …
106Nuclear criticality safety — is a field of nuclear engineering dedicated to the prevention of nuclear and radiation accidents resulting from an inadvertent, self sustaining nuclear chain reaction.[1] Additionally, nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the… …
107Dirty bomb — A dirty bomb is a speculative radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon is to contaminate the area around the explosion with radioactive material, hence the attribute dirty .… …
108Atomic 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… …
109Mass–energy equivalence — E=MC2 redirects here. For other uses, see E=MC2 (disambiguation). 4 meter tall sculpture of Einstein s 1905 E = mc2 formula at the 2006 Walk of Ideas, Berlin, Germany In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the concept that the …
110Operation Castle — Castle Romeo Information Country United States Test site Pacific Proving Grounds Period March May 1954 Number of tests …
