reactor seismic safety
71Operation Plumbbob — Plumbbob Priscilla Information Country United States Test site Nevada Test Site Period April October 1957 …
72solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …
73Eurodif — Eurodif, which means European Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Consortium , is a subsidiary of the French company AREVA which operates a uranium enrichment plant established at the Tricastin Nuclear Power Center in Pierrelatte in Drôme. The… …
74Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant — The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd (which is the site licensee company).… …
75SAPHIRE — is a probabilistic risk and reliability assessment software tool. SAPHIRE stands for Systems Analysis Programs for Hands on Integrated Reliability Evaluations . The system was developed for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the… …
76Operation Plowshare — Not to be confused with the anti nuclear Plowshares Movement. The 1962 Sedan plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (100 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide. Project Plowshare was the overall United… …
772005 in South Africa — See also: 2004 in South Africa, other events of 2005, 2005 in South African sport, 2006 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history. EventsJanuary* 13 January Mark Thatcher pleads guilty to unwittingly bankrolling an alleged coup d… …
782007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake — Coordinates: 37°57′N 138°44′E / 37.95°N 138.733°E / 37.95; 138.733 …
79Masao Yoshida (nuclear engineer) — Masao Yoshida is a General Manager in the Nuclear Asset Management Department of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO), Japan. He was the plant manager during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, where he played a critical role by… …
