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  • 81Nuclear artillery — Upshot Knothole Grable, a 1953 test of a nuclear artillery projectile at Nevada Test Site (photo depicts an artillery piece with a 280 mm bore (11 inch), and the explosion of its artillery shell at a distance of 10 km (6.2 mi)) …

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  • 82Bechtel — Infobox Company company name = Bechtel Corporation company company type = Private company slogan = Bechtel Builds foundation = 1898 industry = Heavy construction, Engineering, Project Management location = San Francisco key people = Riley P.… …

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  • 83Nuclear testing — Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that have developed nuclear weapons have tested them. Testing… …

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  • 84Qanat — A qanat (from ar. قناة) or kareez (from fa. كاريز) is a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water to human settlements or for irrigation in hot, arid and semi arid climates. The technology is known to have developed in… …

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  • 85Yellow Sun — was the first British operational high yield strategic nuclear weapon. The name actually refers only to the outer casing, the warhead (or physics package) was known as Green Grass in Yellow Sun Mk.1 and Red Snow in Yellow Sun Mk.2 . The ENI or… …

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  • 86Neutron transport — is the study of the motions and interactions of neutrons with materials. Nuclear scientists and engineers often need to know where neutrons are in an apparatus, what direction they are going, and how quickly they are moving. It is commonly used… …

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  • 87Semipalatinsk Test Site — Infobox Military Test Site name=Semipalatinsk Test Site caption=Operation First Lightning, the first Soviet atomic test map caption=The 18,000 km 2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), attached to Kurchatov (along the Irtysh …

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  • 88Seth Neddermeyer — Seth Henry Neddermeyer (16 September 1907, Richmond, Michigan 29 January 1988, Seattle, Washington) was an American physicist who worked in the Manhattan Project. He had been Carl D. Anderson s student at Caltech. In 1937, he helped discover… …

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  • 89British nuclear tests at Maralinga — Maralinga Atomic Test Site Map showing nuclear test sites in Australia Type Nuclear test range Location …

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  • 90List of Ig Nobel Prize winners — This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are given each year in early October around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced for ten… …

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