Nuclear World If a nuclear bomb was dropped on your city‚ how would you survive? The blast from the fission bomb on Hiroshima‚ which weighed 30 kilotons‚ was equivalent to 12‚500 tons of TNT. Now‚ if this was dropped right outside your house‚ there would be no way of survival. But‚ one megaton hydrogen bomb is said to have 80 times the explosive intensity of the fission bomb detonated in 1945. The destructive force of the hydrogen bomb is near unimaginable. But first‚ let’s take a
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Fusion as a future energy source Creating Nuclear Fusion could be a break through in finding an alternative source of energy. As of today we do not have the technology to make a nuclear fusion reactor‚ but we could be relying on them for power sometime in the next 30 to 40 years. Nuclear Fusion is created by forcing deuterium (D) and tritium (T) together‚ when forced together their nuclei fuse and then break apart to form a helium nucleus and an uncharged neutron. Most of the excess energy
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OTHER TYPES OF THE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO EVOLVE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND WHY THIS WOULD BE FEASIBLE South Africa as a developing country and is one of the world leader in supplying food and raw material. It has very a lot of arable land and large reserves of natural resources. The warm climate favours the production of most crops and livestock which is in demand by the population. The country’s economic backbone lies between the performance of the mining and agricultural
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NUCLEAR REACTOR CATASTROPHE IN JAPAN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD’S ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTERS By C. G. Weeramantry Former Vice President‚ International Court of Justice President‚ International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms Founder Trustee‚ Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education & Research The earthquake in Japan and the resulting damage to nuclear power plants have sent shock waves and a dire note of warning to the world’s entire population. Despite their
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Nuclear Radiation There are many ways that the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" are similar. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story that deals with nuclear radiation and what the future world would be like if there was an atomic bomb. This short story is a good example of what could happen in the future. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a movie that also has the same genre‚ that it is science fiction. It helps
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In spring of 1989‚ two scientists by the name of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced that they had found a way to create nuclear fusion in a relatively simple and cheap way. Superhot fusion is the process in which deuterium‚ a heavier form of hydrogen‚ is held within a magnetic field and heated to tens of millions of degrees. The nuclei of the atoms fuse‚ and heat energy is released. This kind of fusion happens in our solar system’s sun. This type of fusion is known to occur‚ but recreating
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Nuclear techniques were a major part of wars for the United States especially in world war II. In world war II nuclear techniques were used to help America in the war to promote their chances of them winning the war. During this time this was the nuclear age where the united states moved towards the nuclear age. The nuclear age was apart of the time where many of the war tactics were nuclear weapons. Americans in the war were helped severely by the efforts in the war with nuclear techniques. Many
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sense‚ nuclear power is considered one of the most controversial technologies related to the new millennium. Many people think that nuclear power can provide low-cost energy which can easily substitute oil and the other common sources of energy. In addition to this‚ nuclear weapons are considered the only instrument which can make possible the maintenance of word peace. The nuclear problem is complex and difficult to analyze without any kind of prejudices. First of all‚ it is true that nuclear power
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Kononova Ekaterina. Esse : « Nuclear Winter Model Made By N.Moiseev» Content Introduction…………………………………………………………………….... 3 1. Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev…………………………………………………...4 2. Nuclear winter……………………………………………………………….....6 Summary…………………………………………………………………………10 References………………………………………………………………………..11 Introduction It was said a few years ago that if the human race is wiped out in the next 50 years
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much mass that there is to much where this rate of fission reaction can start increasing and can be very dangerous.could create so much energy to be dangerous. Slide= 15 Uranium would be located in the reactor vessel. in the fuel rods there is a nuclear Fission reaction happening. Lots of energy being released . Water absorbs energy and itt is presurised and moves over into the steam generator and where the liquid turns into a gas and because they move a lot faster. The air particles move the turbine
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