Nuclear Reactors 280 - Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia Is Developing An Improved Coating For Zirconium Nuclear Fuel Rods

       Physicists at the Department of General Physics of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Tomsk, Russia are working on improving the coatings on nuclear fuel rods. TPU was founded in 1896 and it was the first technical university established east of the Ural Mountains. TPU currently has twenty two thousand students.

Nuclear Weapons 278 - Underwater Nuclear Detonations Would Not Be An Effective Use Of Nuclear Bombs

       It has been suggested that a nuclear warhead could be smuggled into a harbor and detonated to cause a destructive tsunami. There have been reports that Russia may have planted nuclear warheads on the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the U.S. There have also been recent stories that claim that Russia is perfecting underwater swift stealth drones that could carry nuclear warheads into U.S.

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