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How heavy water is used to make plutonium from uranium?
Heavy water can be used in a nuclear reactor to moderate the speed of neutrons, making it easier for uranium-238 to absorb a neutron and become plutonium-239. This process is known as breeding plutonium in a reactor and is one method of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons or fuel.
What fuels are used in nuclear power production?
The primary fuels we generally see used in nuclear power plants are the fissile materials uranium and plutonium. In the case of uranium, the metal is recovered from the ground, and is then processed and refined for use as fuel. In reactors using enriched uranium, the uranium will have to undergo considerable processing to increase the concentration of the U-235 isotope that is fissionable. (Natural uranium is mostly U-238.) In the case of plutonium, we can make it by exposing U-238 to neutron flux in an operating nuclear reactor.
Why are only uranium and plutonium used in nuclear reactors?
Uranium and plutonium are used in nuclear reactors because they undergo nuclear fission, releasing a large amount of energy. This energy is harnessed to generate electricity. These elements are preferred due to their ability to sustain a chain reaction in a controlled manner within the reactor core.
Why was plutonium used in Fat Man?
There are two materials that can be used to make an atomic bomb: Plutonium-239 and uranium-235. Of the two plutonium-239 is easier to acquire. By the end of the Manhattan Project the U.S. only had enough uranium-235 to make one bomb, and that was Little Boy.
How will the nuclear power be useful for making weapons?
Use of PWR's and BWR's is no help in making nuclear weapons, the spent fuel does contain plutonium but due to the long time it has spent in the reactor the 239 isotope will be contaminated with higher mass isotopes which render it unsuitable. In any case in the US the spent fuel is not being processed. In France and the UK it is being used to make mixed oxide reactor fuel (MOX), but it is no use for weapons. The development of centrifuges will make it easier to enrich uranium, but there is a big difference between the 4-5 percent 235 required for reactor fuel and the near 100 percent for weapons. The US military obviously has all the fissile material it needs anyway. If you are thinking of Iran or other countries, they will have to be watched to see how far they are taking enrichment.
How you build an atomic bomb?
To make a fission atomic bomb you just take either uranium or plutonium, which are fast-fission materials and find a way to smash the soul out of them so they can make neutrons to continue the chain reaction. You either just take some fissionable uranium, make a bullet out of one and a ball of the other, build a cannon-shaped bomb that shoots the bullet of uranium into the ball of uranium at the end of the barrel - and boom. To make the second kind, you need some plutonium. Plutonium is easy to obtain but it is extremely hard to make into a bomb, because if you shoot two masses of plutonium together like the uranium bomb style, they fission so much easier that they start reacting before they touch and blow themselves apart before anything can fission, so you will need to make a ball of plutonium crush in itself using a shock wave made by a explosion. You surround a ball of fissionable plutonium with explosive stuff. When the surrounding explosives goes boom, the shock waves made by the explosives hits the ball. This causes the plutonium to supercompress itself together - and boom.
How have nuclear weapons made life easier?
They have enabled countries to become scared of waging war on any other countries, Due to nuclear Weapons, No Full scale world wars have been launched from the end of the Cold War.
Is nuclear eneregy inexhaustible?
Most nuclear power plants use uranium. Once the uranium is use it can never be used again. The earth has a lot more power in buried uranium then in buried oil. Also bringing back 150KG of uranium from mars is a lot easier then bringing back 15000000gal(exact figures unknown) of oil from mars. both have the same amount of power. Is in inexhaustible, no. Pretty close to being inexhaustible, Yes
Is uranium recyclable?
This question is not very simple. Uranium used as fuel in nuclear reactors is not all burned completely when it is no longer usable. The rest of uranium can by recycled, but spent fuel processing is extremely difficult and dangerous. Expended fuel is sitting around by the railroad car full for one reason: it is uniformly radioactive, and very highly so. Opening up spent fuel is not for the foolish or the untrained and unequipped. The hazards far outweigh the advantages, and it is far, far "easier" to store spent fuel than to do anything else with it. And that is why spent nuclear fuel storage is an issue now; reprocessing it is almost unspeakably "dirty" work.
How can a uranium atom be made to release nuclear energy?
Every atom contains nuclear energy inside it. That nuclear energy can be released by splitting the atom. The uranium atom is one of the ones that is easier to split. Usually to release the nuclear energy atoms are collided with each other which breaks them releasing the nuclear energy. This is done in a machine called a particle accelerator in which atoms are fired at near the speed of light and when they collide and split they release nuclear energy. I Hope that answers your question.
What battles was Canada involved in in World War 2?
Making Atomic bomb with US because Canada is the second largest uranium deposit country therefore, it is easier to make nuclear weapons. (Uranium is naturally occured element)
Did the nuclear arms treaty agree on not testing nuclear weapons or not doing nuclear weapons?
There is not just one nuclear arms treaty... there are a number of treaties currently in place between the U.S., Russia, and many other countries dealing with nuclear weapons. Some have to do with banning testing (whether above ground, below ground, or in space), some with banning their construction. Other treaties deal with an attempt to keep existing weapons from getting into the hands of other nations ('non-proliferation') and the most encouraging treaties are concerned with significantly reducing the existing nuclear stockpiles to a much smaller number that is easier to maintain, control and monitor.
