Wartime security of the atomic bomb project being paramount, he eavesdropped on phone calls of scientists and engineers in Los Alamos, N.

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But now the Federal Atomic Energy Agency is planning a highly ambitious project, to build 40 new reactors by the year 2030.

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It was built in the 1940s as part of the "Manhattan Project" to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II.

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Another spent his early years in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as his father worked on the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb.

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One of LRO's instruments, the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (Lamp), detected enhanced concentrations of mercury and atomic hydrogen in the cloud from the demise of the twin spacecraft.

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When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.

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Then there is the Manhattan Project, the name given to America's development of the atomic bomb during the second world war.

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Mr. Robinson notes that despite these dangers, Russian support for the project remains high, especially from Viktor Mikhailov, head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (MinAtom) and a holdover from the old Soviet era.

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