Alvin Martin Weinberg (/ˈwaɪnbɜːrɡ/; April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National...
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The Alvin Weinberg Foundation was a registered UK charity, operating under the name Weinberg Next Nuclear, that campaigned for research and development...
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Reactors. Th-232/U-233 is best suited to molten salt reactors (MSR). Alvin M. Weinberg pioneered the use of the MSR at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At...
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MSRs for industrial heat, hydrogen; revises timeline". Weinberg Next Nuclear. The Alvin Weinberg Foundation. Retrieved 9 June 2016. Chen, Stephen (5 December...
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the Bechtel working group. Building on earlier suggestions made by Alvin Weinberg and Arsen Darnay he proposed the creation of an atomic priesthood, a...
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ordinary water as a moderator. By the end of the war, following an idea of Alvin Weinberg, natural uranium fuel elements were arranged in a lattice in ordinary...
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mistake". Science writer Richard Martin states that nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg, who was director at Oak Ridge and primarily responsible for the new...
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accelerator in an accelerator-driven subcritical reactor. According to Alvin Weinberg and Eugene Wigner, Louis Slotin was the first to propose the name "dollar"...
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Weinberg Foundation may refer to: Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation The Alvin Weinberg Foundation This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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the design and development of nuclear reactors and in the opinion of Alvin Weinberg he was "the country's foremost expert on graphite"... After receiving...
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and coolant challenges facing one fusion company mirror fission". The Alvin Weinberg Foundation. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved...
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hundreds of initially classified patents, most notably Eugene Wigner and Alvin Weinberg's Patent #2,736,696, on a conceptual light water reactor (LWR) that would...
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"crisis of scientific information". The report was named after Dr. Alvin Weinberg. Joseph Becker and Robert M. Hayes published text on information retrieval...
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poverty. Thorium based reactors, such as those designed by the late Alvin Weinberg, could radically change perceptions of nuclear power leading to widespread...
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They would be in the vanguard of the kind of large-scale research that Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, would call Big Science...
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Weinberg, Alvin (1994a). The First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer. New York: AIP Press. ISBN 1-56396-358-2. Weinberg, Alvin...
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Greenpeace in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2005. He was director of The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, co-founder of the organisation Climate Answers, associate...
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under the leadership of former Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Alvin Weinberg. This institute's focus was the evaluation of alternatives for meeting...
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for a proposed fleet of long-range bombers, but it was never used. Alvin M. Weinberg was named Director of Research, ORNL, and in 1955 Director of the...
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from 1961 to 1963.[citation needed] During the 1960s she worked with Alvin Weinberg at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she conducted civil defense...
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chemist Gore Verbinski, film director of Pirates of the Caribbean series Alvin Weinberg, nuclear physicist Ed Westcott, only authorized photographer in Oak...
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fuel elements. The MSR program was defunded in 1976 after its patron Alvin Weinberg was fired. In 1993, Carlo Rubbia proposed the concept of an energy amplifier...
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became the Argonne National Laboratory, with Zinn as its first director. Alvin Weinberg characterized Zinn as "a model of what a director of the then-emerging...
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Katherine Weimer – United States (1919–2000) Alvin Weinberg – United States (1915–2006) Steven Weinberg – United States (1933–2021) Nobel laureate Rainer...
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reactor Sir Kelvin Spencer, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power 1954–59 Alvin Weinberg, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1955–71 Dr. Glenn Seaborg,...
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Developing an alternative reactor, with Silicon Valley flair". Weinberg Next Nuclear. The Alvin Weinberg Foundation. Retrieved 20 February 2016. Temple, James...
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first investigator who recognized the nature of regulatory science was Alvin Weinberg, who described the scientific process used to evaluate effects of ionizing...
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1937) October 17 – Megan Meier, notable victim (b. 1992) October 18 – Alvin Weinberg, American nuclear physicist (b. 1915) October 19 – Phyllis Kirk, American...
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energy, including Georges Charpak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Edward Teller, Alvin M. Weinberg, Eugene Wigner, Ted Taylor, and Jeff Eerkens. There are also scientists...
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accepted. In early 1943, Wigner and his Theoretical Group that included Alvin Weinberg, Katharine Way, Leo Ohlinger, Gale Young and Edward Creutz produced...
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