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Semipalatinsk Test Site

(Encyclopedia) Semipalatinsk Test Site, Soviet nuclear testing site, c.6,950 sq mi (18,000 sq km), NE Kazakhstan, near the city of Kurchatov and some 90 mi (150 km) W of Semey (formerly Semipalatinsk…

Brown, Harold

(Encyclopedia) Brown, Harold, 1927–2019, American nuclear physicist and government official, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1949. He joined (1952) the staff of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (…

Murmansk

(Encyclopedia) MurmanskMurmanskm&oobreve;rmänskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 468,000), capital of Murmansk region, NW European Russia, on the Kola Gulf of the Barents Sea. It is the terminus of the…

Dounreay

(Encyclopedia) DounreayDounreayd&oomacr;nˈrā, d&oomacr;nrāˈ [key], village, Highland, N Scotland. Several nuclear breeder reactors are located nearby.

Bethe, Hans Albrecht

(Encyclopedia) Bethe, Hans AlbrechtBethe, Hans Albrechtbāˈtə [key], 1906–2005, American physicist, b. Strassburg, Germany (now Strasbourg, France), educated at Frankfurt and Munich universities.…

war

(Encyclopedia) war, armed conflict between states or nations (international war) or between factions within a state (civil war), prosecuted by force and having the purpose of compelling the defeated…

isotope

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Isotopes of hydrogen isotopeisotopeīˈsətōp [key], in chemistry and physics, one of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but differing in atomic weight and mass…

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore

(Encyclopedia) Seaborg, Glenn TheodoreSeaborg, Glenn Theodoresēˈbôrg [key], 1912–99, American chemist, b. Ishpeming, Mich., grad. Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1934, Ph.D. Univ. of California…

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Encyclopedia) Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant…

Pierrelatte

(Encyclopedia) PierrelattePierrelattepyĕrlätˈ [key], town, Drôme dept., SE France. The center of France's nuclear industry, Pierrelatte has a large uranium-producing complex. Other industries include…