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The Trinity test on 16 July 1945, near Socorro, New Mexico, was the first-ever test of a nuclear weapon (yield of around 20 kilotons). The Operation Crossroads series in July 1946, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands , was the first postwar test series and one of the largest military operations in U.S. history.
Technical Associates, founded in 1946 as a spin off from the Manhattan Project, built the first industrial grade radiation monitors. [8] Overhoff Technology Corporation, design and manufacturing of high quality tritium monitors [9] Electronic Control Concepts (ECC), X-ray equipment [10] [11]
North Carolina End of Grade Tests (Grades 3-8) End of Course Tests (Grades 9-12) EOGs EOCs North Dakota: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction: North Dakota State Assessment: North Dakota CAT [31] Ohio: Ohio State Board of Education: Ohio’s State Tests: OST (Many districts incorrectly refer to as the "AIR Test") [32] Oklahoma
The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War ...
Rulison Test Site in 2012. Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was an underground 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about 8 miles (13 km) SE of the town of Grand Valley, Colorado (now named Parachute, Colorado) in Garfield County.
Hot cells are of nuclear proliferation concern, as they can be used to carry out the chemical steps used to extract plutonium (whether weapons grade or not) from reactor fuel. [ citation needed ] The cutting of the used fuel, the dissolving of the fuel in hot nitric acid and the first extraction cycle of a nuclear reprocessing PUREX process ...
The incident occurred on Sunday when 5th precinct deputies from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida responded to reports of a stabbing at a home on New York Drive in Tice, some 5 miles ...
Eighth grade (also 8th Grade or Grade 8) is the eighth year of formal or compulsory education in the United States of America. The eighth grade is the second, third, or fourth (and typically final) year of middle school. Students in eighth grade are usually 13–14 years old. Different terms and numbers are used in other parts of the world.