• in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?

Facts on topics related to Nuclear technology

Plutonium

• Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
• IR-40, an Iranian heavy water reactor, could produce 10 kilograms (22 lb) to 12 kilograms (26 lb) of plutonium, enough to build two nuclear weapons, each year?
• forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?

Nuclear fission

• physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?

Nuclear fusion

• instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?
• the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?

Nuclear power

• Igor Spassky, the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau, was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex?
• Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
• Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?
• Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding, spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
• scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station?
• the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?
• the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?