Scientists at the Robotics institute of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new robot called RadPiper for the purpose of finding radioactive materials in the pipes of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Piketon, Ohio facility.
Towards the end of the Soviet Union, the USSR put intercontinental ballistic missiles on trains. Their Soviet name was RT-23 but the U.S. referred to them as the SS-23 Scalpel. Each missile was seventy-seven feet long and carried ten five-hundred and fifty kiloton multiple-reentry warheads. The trains were referred to as Moldets. The first became operational in 1987.
The U.S. Military Has 3,822 Nuclear Weapons. Nationalinterest.org
Current nuclear power reactors are fueled with assemblies of rods. The rods contain pellets of uranium or a uranium-plutonium mixture called MOX. The long thin fuel rods in a nuclear fuel assembly are coated in a process called cladding.
