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Also Known As atomic power • atomic energy

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nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
Large nuclear power plant with four cooling towers emitting steam and several striped smokestacks, located behind residential buildings in Lianyungang, China.
Nuclear power station
Diagram showing three types of power cycles in nuclear power plants: a single-loop cycle with one closed water circuit from reactor to turbine, a two-loop cycle with separate primary and secondary loops connected by a steam generator, and a three-loop cycle adding a tertiary loop and heat exchanger for extra separation between the reactor and turbine systems.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
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Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton
British engineer
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Architect of India's nuclear program
Homi Bhabha
Indian physicist
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
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Walter Henry Zinn
American physicist

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