Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Next he served as a Group Leader with the Manhattan Project team that isolated the first milligram of plutonium. Then he picked up an M.D. and was appointed Professor of Medical Physics at Berkeley. In the 1960s he was associate Director of the Lawrence Livermore Lab, one of two research centers where all U.S. nuclear weapons are developed...
Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray yesterday afternoon shut down the Hanford, Wash., radioactive waste disposal site, thus cutting off Harvard's outlet for low-level radioactive wastes produced from University research facilities...
Astronomers and archaeologists have long speculated that Stonehenge, a ring-like structure of tremendous stones built in southern England more than 4000 years ago, may have been a pre-historic astronomic research tool...
...know that there's so much conservatism in this area, we do stop and ask ourselves safety questions again," Otto Harling. director of MIT's nuclear research laboratory, said yesterday. "We're not near the ragged edge at all as far as safety is concerned...
...fact, the core's products are cool enough to generate steam safely. Thomas Jones, MIT vice president for research, said yesterday the reactor body fills with hot but not scalding water. "The energy at that temperature isn't very useful, but it's very safe," he said. "In fact, if people had been energy-conscious then as they are now, we could have used the energy to heat these buildings...