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Argonne's Nuclear Energy Research Drives Innovation in Gen-IV Reactor Safety and Efficiency
15 Jan 2025 03:03 GMT
… Enrico Fermi’s successful Chicago Pile-1 fission experiment — fast reactor … applications and obtain Nuclear Regulatory Commission approvals … fidelity data for nuclear reactor computer code development … -down analysis in nuclear reactor design software. THETA …
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Three American Scientists Honored With The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award
19 Dec 2024 20:05 GMT
… have been awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, named after … as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Héctor D … and national security.”
The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award is one of … 's first artificial nuclear reactor. The award in his …
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90 Seconds to Midnight: Surviving the Atomic Age | Opinion
19 Dec 2024 10:21 GMT
… bomb-making reactors have nothing to do with civilian power plants. Actually, the … and gas, scrambles to build nuclear power plants, the country is not meeting … nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was the first man to build an atomic reactor …
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Italy's hard-right government to build country's first new nuclear power stations in decades
21 Oct 2024 21:22 GMT
… framework for its first nuclear power stations in almost 40 years. … third and fourth generation nuclear power plants can be installed in … not want to import nuclear reactors from other countries. … the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel …
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The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago
15 Oct 2024 20:13 GMT
The Chicago Egg had a successful flight aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1985. “It was a very pioneering experiment. It measured cosmic ray particles up to very high energies which nobody had done before, using techniques that no one had used before— …
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Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again
21 Nov 2024 14:11 GMT
… guides the design of nuclear power plants. Credit: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. CC BY … the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) regulators from the agency’s reactor developers … of principle, one analogous to Enrico Fermi’s 1942 demonstration of a …
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American Physical Society recognizes ORNL's historic Graphite Reactor
05 Nov 2024 03:46 GMT
… Pile was the second nuclear reactor in the world to … term for a nuclear reactor. The Graphite Reactor was initially known … town. Its construction followed Enrico Fermi’s successful Chicago Pile ( … pilot plants for a reactor and chemical separations facility, …
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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator
28 Oct 2024 16:57 GMT
… PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, … strips electrons from the atomic nuclei, forming a plasma … Aspen Mountain in 1951. Enrico Fermi had observed that a … stone toward a fusion power plant.”
Spitzer determined that a …
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How a small reactor in Eastern WA became the world’s first nuclear plant 80 years ago
27 Oct 2024 14:09 GMT
… for Hanford’s first reactor. Although some preparation had … Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist instrumental in the development of nuclear … reactor’s core.
Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic … Pile, the experimental reactor that replaced Fermi’s …
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Italy lays groundwork for return to nuclear power
21 Oct 2024 16:28 GMT
… framework for its first nuclear power stations in almost 40 years … third and fourth generation nuclear power plants can be installed in … not want to import nuclear reactors from other countries. … the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, winner of the Nobel …