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64 relations: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Anti-nuclear movement, Anti-nuclear protests in the United States, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bechtel, Bechtel Jacobs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Calutron, Clinton Engineer Works, Cold War, COLEX process, Copper, Criticality accident, Daniel W. Bell, Day & Zimmermann, Eastman Chemical Company, Electromagnet, Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, Enriched uranium, Ernest Lawrence, FOGBANK, G4S Secure Solutions, Gaseous diffusion, Isotope separation, K-25, Kenneth Nichols, Kingsport, Tennessee, Knoxville News Sentinel, Leidos, Little Boy, Lockheed Martin, Manhattan Project, Martin Marietta, Megan Rice, National Nuclear Security Administration, Natural uranium, Nuclear weapon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Orbital ATK, Pantex Plant, Plowshares movement, Potassium superoxide, S-50 (Manhattan Project), Science Applications International Corporation, Short ton, Silver, Sodium-potassium alloy, Stars and Stripes (newspaper), Stockpile stewardship, ..., Stone & Webster, Superfund, Tonne, Troy weight, Union Carbide, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Department of Energy, Uranium-235, Uranium-238, UT–Battelle, Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack, William J. Bichsel, World War II. Expand index (14 more) »
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.
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Anti-nuclear movement
The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies.
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Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
There were many anti-nuclear protests in the United States which captured national public attention during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
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Bechtel
Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group, Inc.) is an engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company.
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Bechtel Jacobs
Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC is a limited liability company owned by Bechtel and Jacobs Engineering Group that served as the primary contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for waste management and environmental remediation activities on DOE-managed federal government properties in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (informally: Booz Allen) is an American management and information technology consulting firm, sometimes referred to as a government-services company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C., with 80 other offices around the globe.
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Calutron
A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium.
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Clinton Engineer Works
The Clinton Engineer Works (CEW) was the production installation of the Manhattan Project that during World War II produced the enriched uranium used in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, as well as the first examples of reactor-produced plutonium.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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COLEX process
The COLEX process (or COLEX separation) is a chemical method of isotopic separation of lithium-6 and lithium-7, based on the use of mercury.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Criticality accident
A criticality accident is an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction.
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Daniel W. Bell
Daniel Wafena Bell (July 23, 1891 – October 4, 1971) was an American civil servant and businessman.
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Day & Zimmermann
The Day & Zimmermann is a privately held company in the fields of construction, engineering, staffing and defense solutions, operating out of 150 locations worldwide.
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Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Chemical Company, an American Fortune 500 company, is a global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, chemicals and fibers for everyday purposes.
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Electromagnet
An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.
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Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) was passed in 2000 and is designed to compensate individuals who worked in nuclear weapons production and as a result of occupational exposures contracted certain illnesses.
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Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation.
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Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
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FOGBANK
FOGBANK is a code name given to a material used in nuclear weapons such as the W76, W78 and W80.
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G4S Secure Solutions
G4S Secure Solutions (USA) is a United States/ British-based security services company, and a subsidiary of G4S plc.
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Gaseous diffusion
Gaseous diffusion is a technology used to produce enriched uranium by forcing gaseous uranium hexafluoride (UF6) through semipermeable membranes.
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Isotope separation
Isotope separation is the process of concentrating specific isotopes of a chemical element by removing other isotopes.
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K-25
K-25 was the codename given by the Manhattan Project to the program to produce enriched uranium for atomic bombs using the gaseous diffusion method.
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Kenneth Nichols
Major General Kenneth David Nichols (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000), also known by Nick, was an army officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who is notable for his classified works in the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District.
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Kingsport, Tennessee
Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee; most of the city is in Sullivan County.
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Knoxville News Sentinel
The Knoxville News Sentinel is a daily newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, owned by the Gannett Company.
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Leidos
Leidos, formerly known as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), is an American defense, aviation, information technology, and biomedical research company headquartered in Reston, Virginia, that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services.
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Little Boy
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
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Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Martin Marietta
The Martin Marietta Corporation was an American company founded in 1961 through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American Marietta Corporation.
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Megan Rice
Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., (born January 31, 1930) is an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and former missionary.
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National Nuclear Security Administration
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal government agency responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.
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Natural uranium
Natural uranium (NU, Unat) refers to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT-Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville.
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Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company.
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Pantex Plant
The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
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Plowshares movement
The Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war.
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Potassium superoxide
Potassium superoxide is the inorganic compound with the formula.
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S-50 (Manhattan Project)
The S-50 Project was the Manhattan Project's effort to produce enriched uranium by liquid thermal diffusion during World War II.
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Science Applications International Corporation
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is an American company headquartered in Reston, Virginia that provides government services and information technology support.
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Short ton
The short ton is a unit of weight equal to.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Sodium-potassium alloy
Sodium-potassium alloy, colloquially called NaK (commonly pronounced), is an alloy of two alkali metals sodium (Na, atomic number 11) and potassium (K, atomic number 19) and which is usually liquid at room temperature.
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Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
Stars and Stripes is an American military newspaper that focuses and reports on matters concerning the members of the United States Armed Forces.
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Stockpile stewardship
Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing.
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Stone & Webster
Stone & Webster was an American engineering services company based in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
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Superfund
Superfund is a United States federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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Troy weight
Troy weight is a system of units of mass customarily used for precious metals and gemstones.
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Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary (since 2001) of Dow Chemical Company.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.
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United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
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Uranium-235
Uranium-235 (235U) is an isotope of uranium making up about 0.72% of natural uranium.
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Uranium-238
Uranium-238 (238U or U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature, with a relative abundance of 99%.
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UT–Battelle
UT–Battelle, LLC is a nonprofit limited liability company (LLC) organized under the laws of Tennessee.
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Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack
The vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack is of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security.
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William J. Bichsel
William Jerome Bichsel, S.J. (May 26, 1928 – February 28, 2015), nicknamed "Bix", was a Jesuit priest in Tacoma, Washington, United States.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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