Kurchatov
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Kurchatov is home to one of Russia's biggest nuclear plants, but there were no reports it was affected in either incident.
From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2023
Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoyt said one residential and one administrative building had been hit in the town of Kurchatov, close to the Kursk nuclear plant.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2023
For years Ukrainian scientists, with Russian colleagues from the Kurchatov institute, have kept a tense vigil.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 25, 2022
In a follow-up analysis, Mr. Wellerstein concluded that Igor Kurchatov, the head of the Soviet bomb project, drew the schematic for Lavrenty Beria, the head of Stalin’s secret police.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2020
The job of building the Soviet bomb was put in the hands of a forty-year-old physicist named Igor Kurchatov.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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