... mainly acquired through neutron bombardment of lithium targets at the Chapelcross reactor. The tritium has been extracted from the targets in a chemical processing facility constructed on the Chapelcross site. The quantities of tritium produced at Chapelcross have not been disclosed. Without detailed knowledge of fuelling arrangements at Chapelcross, Britain's tritium production is very difficult to estimate. ... present the new Labour government with difficult decisions, not least because of Sellafield's location within a cabinet minister's parliamentary constituency and because of stro...

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... secret was to set up one single lab with living spaces around it. This is where scientists, physicists and all others involved in the project would live and do research. "Site Y, as the hypothetical laboratory was initially called, needed good transportation, an adequate supply of water, a local labor force and a moderate climate for year-round construction and for experiments conducted outdoors ... research activities took place at such sites as Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oakridge, Tennessee; and Hanford, Washington. By 1942 the project was code-named Manhattan, which was named after the ...

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... the Soviets so the soldiers were ordered to dress as tourists when entering Cuban territory. All the equipment that the Soviets needed to set up a Nuclear Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile site was located in the ships holds. On the 29th August 1962 a US U2 spy plane finally photographed something unusual in Cuba. It seemed as thought it was a missile ... site. On the 15th October 1962 more photographs came through and it became so clear and obvious that Krushchev had ordered his troops to set up nuclear missile sites in Cuba ... ...

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... was supposed to destroy an area of 2.4 squared miles, but it only destroyed 44% of the city. This was due to two reasons. First of all, Nagasaki was not a perfect site for the dropping of such a bomb, since the city was rich in ridges and hills. And secondly, the weather was not very favorable. All in all, the bomb killed more ... ...

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... was to successfully separate Uranium-235 from Uranium-238 and turn this into a usable weapon. In 1942, General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he immediately purchased a site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Groves then chose a scientific director for the bomb project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who built on an isolated area in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oppenheimer was the major ... ...

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... atomic bomb, of which the Americans knew about. Tests conducted by the Manhattan Engineer District showed the effects of the atomic bomb when detonated on a target. Tests were done on a site 29 kilometers by 39 kilometer bombing range in the New Mexican desert. A small bomb was detonated on a 100 feet tall tower. The tower was blown to pieces; the detonation left ... ...

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