Sentences with phrase «controlled nuclear explosions»
The spaceships of Project Orion, designed in the late 1950s but never built, had in common their massive size (this one was more than 30 feet in diameter) and a propulsion system that relied on controlled nuclear explosions.
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They argue that the way to get rid of nuclear weapons is to control the fissile materials that cause the explosions.
In this made - for - TV movie, a potentially dangerous explosion at a nuclear power plant is kept under control.
Director Robert Kenner and author Eric Schlosser look at a potentially catastrophic explosion in a nuclear missile site in Arkansas during the Cold War in their documentary «Command and Control.»
The power came back on Saturday in the control room of Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the tsunami caused explosions and fires after the earthquake in Japan.