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Nuclear engineering was born in 1938, with the discovery of nuclear fission. [7] The first artificial nuclear reactor, CP-1, was designed by a team of physicists who were concerned that Nazi Germany might also be seeking to build a bomb based on nuclear fission.
Gail H. Marcus is an American nuclear engineer and expert on nuclear power plants, the first American woman with a doctorate in nuclear engineering. [1] She is a past president of the American Nuclear Society, and the author of the book Nuclear Firsts: Milestones on the Road to Nuclear Power.
INL is an applied engineering laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's research of nuclear energy, national and homeland security, and clean energy. Past and current work includes initial development of: nuclear reactor designs, prototype reactors for the U.S. Navy, and technologies to manage nuclear waste.
Georgia Power announced Monday that the first of two nuclear reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle, in Burke County, has achieved “initial criticality,” meaning engineers have begun ...
The Idaho Chemical Processing Plant chemically processed material from used reactor cores to recover reusable nuclear material. It is now called the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center. The Materials Test Area tested materials' exposure to reactor conditions. The Materials Test Area is part of the Advanced Test Reactor Complex.
With the decreased cost and increased capabilities of computers, Nuclear Engineering has implemented computer software (Computer code to Mathematical model) into all facets of this field. There are a wide variety of fields associated with nuclear engineering, but computers and associated software are used most often in design and analysis.
In the course of the war, the Allied nuclear effort, the Manhattan Project, created several secret sites for the purpose of bomb research and material development, including a laboratory in the mountains of New Mexico directed by Robert Oppenheimer , and sites at Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
An engineer faces a charge of stealing nuclear trade secrets from his employer in California, federal authorities report. The 57-year-old San Jose man copied more than 3,600 files containing trade ...