Nuclear Device - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nuclear deviceNuclear device
an explosive device whether used as a weapon or for other purposes which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei A fission device or a fusion device...
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
nuclear reactor
Any of several devices that maintain and control a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction for the production of energy heat or artificial elements or for research purposes The main fuel sustaining the reaction and consumed by the process is typically uranium or plutonium...
nuclear explosion
The explosion of an atomic bomb or atomic device sometimes also used of fusion powered explosions...
Nuclear
of pertaining to or using nuclear weapons a nuclear exchange ie a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons...
nuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
nuclear powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor Same as nuclear submarine...
nuclear energy
Energy derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion energy...
nuclear engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors...
nuclear fission
A nuclear reaction in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...
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