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What is the chance of the uranium working to make the nuclear weapon?
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∙ 13y ago
The answer is impossible: we can use uranium in weapons but we can also use uranium in another very useful applications; it is a choice: aggressive countries as United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Russia, etc. can use nuclear weapons as a threat against the other countries.
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How efficient is uranium?
Uranium is very efficient as nuclear fuel or nuclear weapon. Uranium is an alternative to fossil fuels.
Which radioactive actinide was the primary explosive component of nuclear weapons?
This would be plutonium in modern nuclear weapons. Another actinide common in nuclear weapons is uranium. Nowadays this is usually found in the secondary of the weapon. The Little Boy weapon used against Hiroshima used uranium as the fissile material. This was a single stage weapon. A few other weapons also used uranium as the primary nuclear explosive.
What element is needed to make a nuclear weapon?
Uranium makes for an excellent element for nuclear fission. Hydrogen is most commonly used for nuclear fusion.
What nuclear material was the atom bomb made of?
Uranium 235, or plutonium, depending on weapon design
How does weapon-grade uranium differ from nuclear-reactor-grade uranium?
Weapons grade uranium contains a substantially larger fraction of the radioactive isotope 235U than does reactor grade uranium.
How much uranium is needed to make a nuclear weapon?
it cost 4oo dallors of material and the same as 40,000 gerdans
How do create a nuclear weapon?
A nuclear bomb contains two parts. The Uranium and Hydrogen. When on first impact the hydrogen canister explodes trigering a reaction happening in the uranium which explodes at heats of over 3000 Degree Celcius.
Are centrifuges used to make nuclear weapons?
Centrifuges are one method of enriching Uranium. Depending on how much you enrich it the Uranium can be usable as either reactor fuel or nuclear weapon explosive.Other methods of enrichment include:gaseous diffusioncalutronsthermal diffusion
Can anybody sell uranium?
No, because it can be extremely dangerous, even used in a nuclear weapon. The uranium trade is made under the control of International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards. Uranium is not so dangerous. Lead, cadmium or mercury are, for example, more dangerous. Now nuclear weapons have plutonium as fissionable material, not with uranium.
Can a nuclear reactor be used as a nuclear weapon?
No. LLNL even tested several Uranium-Hydride bombs in the 1950s. Even though their computer models said the devices should explode, none gave a nuclear yield. One could use the waste from the reactor as a Radiological Weapon, but the reactor itself is not useful as a weapon.
What is the meaning of nuclear weapon?
The meaning of the word nuclear weapon, is a weapon that has a nuclear warhead on it.
What weapon which used the main extraction of pitchblende as fuel?
Pitchblende is uranium ore, so any nuclear weapon which used uranium in some form or other (tamper, core, used with plutonium, secondary casing) would need uranium, which is initially obtained from the mining and refining of pitchblende, for example, Little Boy.
