Although it would be too much to say that the history of materials technology has been largely an amateur pursuit of scientists, it hasn't enjoyed much support from professional historians.
at least as many neutrons are produced as are consumed in the fission process or non-productively absorbed in other non-fissionable materials. Because the neutrons of a hybrid are supplied ...
They predicted the blast weeks in advance, reported it almost as soon as it happened, named its fissionable material, estimated its energy and followed the spreading cloud of radioactivity as it ...
Who can doubt, if the entire body of the world's scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, that this capability would ...
In Hanford, Washington, three reactors were built to extract plutonium (another element with atoms that could be split) from a non-fissionable type of uranium. Finally a lab for the design and ...
At the same time, it operated a nuclear power station – the infamous Chernobyl plant – with three functional reactors designed to produce plutonium suitable for enrichment into weapons-grade ...