Reactors, devices designed to initiate and control nuclear chain reactions, were built in Hanford, Washington, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Oak Ridge, known as "The Secret City," was also the site of a massive uranium enrichment laboratory and plant to make the nuclear fuel. Researchers worked ...
During World War II, American physicists and engineers conducted a race against Nazi Germany to become the first to exploit the newly understood process of nuclear fission for military applications. Their secret endeavor, which lasted from 1942 to 1945, was known as the Manhattan Project. The effo...
of other congresspeople are hoping to start an entirely new regulatory body, like the creation of what became the fcc after the radio was invented, or the nuclear regulatory commission to regulate nuclear energy, and countless other agencies that have come along with the advent of new inventions...
US nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric, which was recently acquired by Toshiba of Japan, has been developing a clever new way to spot nuclear contraband. Many US ports already X-ray ship containers to see if they contain hidden nuclear material. But X-ray machines may fail to spot hi...
This invention concerns certain new glycol ethers and a method of making the same. The new ethers herein disclosed have the general formula S Y-CnH2n-CH(R) -O-Aryl-Xn, wherein Y represents chlorine or a nuclear halogenated aryloxy radical of the benzene series attached to a primary or se...
Objective:Define discovery, invention, and innovation. Discuss the interactions between these activities. Discuss the incentive system promoting each. Briefly discuss the evolution of institutions promoting these activities. Next, discuss two learning strategies that promote innovation. Then, discuss the impa...