** Nuclear fission

** Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant, in Italy

** Limerick Nuclear Power Plant

** Latina Nuclear Power Plant

** Nuclear reactions

** The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.

** North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

** Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization ( CTBTO ) established.

** Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.

** The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.

** Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with Nuclear Weapons.

** An experimental Reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station suffered a partial meltdown when its cooling system failed.

** Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike.

** Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA

** The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C. by U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

** Nuclear Operations

** Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse ( NEMP ), as a result of a nuclear explosion.

** Nuclear magnetic resonance

** Interview on nuclear strategy in Europe for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

** NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War

** Salem Nuclear Power Plant

** Nuclear risks and global warming

** Seabrook Nuclear Power Station

** Train Rescue-Involves rescuing Sims from the top of a fast-moving runaway train.

** Preliminary Confessions, devoted to the author's childhood and youth, and concentrated upon the emotional and psychological factors that underlay the later opium experiences — especially the period in his late teens that de Quincey spent as a homeless runaway in Oxford Street in London in 1802 and 1803.

** Fermi 1 and Fermi 2 nuclear power plants in Newport, Michigan

** nuclear properties

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** Advanced Heavy Water Reactor ( AHWR )— A proposed heavy water moderated nuclear power reactor that will be the next generation design of the PHWR type.

** Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity

** 2 × B57 nuclear bombs

** Thulegate, a political scandal involving nuclear weapons

** 109. meitnerium, Mt, named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was one of the earliest scientists to become involved in the study of nuclear fission ( 1982 ).

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** U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.

** A 5. 3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program.

** The keel is laid for the U. S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

** South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme.

** China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide de facto moratorium.

** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.

** James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist ( d. 2007 )

** The Franck Committee recommends against a surprise nuclear bombing of Japan.

** Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate ( d. 2007 )