Proper noun
Nuckolls
A surname.
Another outcome of the Teller meeting was to prompt John Nuckolls to start considering what happens when the fusion side of the bomb, the "secondary," was scaled down to very small size. Source: Internet
Even as Nuckolls was developing his earliest detailed calculations on the idea, co-workers pointed this out: if an IFE machine produces 50 MJ of fusion energy, one might expect that a shot could produce perhaps 10 MJ of power for export. Source: Internet
“The pursuit took participants through parts of Fillmore, Thayer and Nuckolls counties,” said Mike Meyer, an NSP spokesman. Source: Internet
Moreover, Nuckolls' solution had the fuel dropped into a fixed hohlraum that would be re-used in a continual cycle, but at current energy levels the hohlraum is destroyed with every shot. Source: Internet