Search for dissertations about: "Alberto Talamo"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Alberto Talamo.

  1. 1. Advanced In-Core Fuel Cycles for the Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor

    Author : Alberto Talamo; Waclaw Gudowski; Kurt Kugeler; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Atomic physics; Atomfysik;

    Abstract : In 1789 a German chemist, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, announced the discovery of a new element: uranium; few years later, the head of father of the modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier, was swept away by guillotine: a new era was destined to be opened, either where energy would have been produced in large scale by nuclear processes delivering hundreds of times the energy of chemical processes or where a mass of people, revolutionary or not, would have been melted down into a couple of seconds. After a quite long time, on the 2nd December 1942, the first nuclear reactor has been put into operation by Enrico Fermi in Chicago; few years later, came also the dark side utilization of fissile materials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. READ MORE