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Why France has nuclear bomb?
Because the French government at some point thought they needed to develop such weapons. France got their first nuclear bomb in 1960.
What is a glowing example of a radioactive element?
Most radioactive elements when kept in dark will glow to some extent. Radium could be thought of the highest glowing radioactive element out of all. Radioactive elements undergo spontaneous emission of either alpha, beta particles or gamma rays
What are the short-term consequence of a nuclear accident?
The only thing that can be said about the short term effects of a nuclear accident is that there is the possibility that some one might suffer from radioactive poisoning. There are a number of different types of nuclear accidents, and the only thing they all have in common is the presence of radioactivity. The numbers of different types are probably too numerous to list. Some types include: Nuclear meltdown Accidental loss of nuclear waste Loss in transit of nuclear materials Accidental distribution of radioactive materials Accidental exposure to radioactive materials that were improperly disposed of Accidents in laboratories or hospitals. Industrial accidents involving radioactive materials. etc. The International Nuclear Events Scale (link below) rates nuclear accidents according to severity, from 0 (a below scale event of no significance) to 7 (wide spread off site impact). The Chernobyl Disaster is the only accident so far to have been rated 7. The Kyshtym Disaster is the only one rated number 6, and it was not at a nuclear power plant, but rather a reprocessing facility. Two of the three accidents rated 5 were at nuclear power plants (including Three Mile Island). The other, however, happened because radioactive materials were improperly salvaged from abandoned medical equipment, resulting in the deaths of several people, who thought the dust that glowed blue in the dark was pretty and used it as a cosmetic (Goiânia accident). A fair number of the so-called Radium Girls died, but they were not part of an accident that was rated because it preceded the term of the rating system. The short term effects were radiation poisoning, leading tot the deaths of several people. A case of improper disposal of radioactive materials in New Jersey was also not rated. The materials were discovered because of cases of radiation poisoning leading to the deaths of three people. The site had to be cleaned up, a process on about the same scale as the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant.
What is the odor of neptunuim?
I thought that was radioactive; in which case, to know for sure is to be dead (soon)
Why stable isotopes dont have half life long?
A stable isotope does not have a half-life because of the definition of stable versus radioactive. It is stable, and does not decay; thus, it has no half-life. Only unstable, i.e. radioactive isotopes have half-lives. There are some isotopes that are thought to be unstable, but for which we have been unable to measure the half-life because it is so long. These are examples of some of the primordial nuclides, such as Ta-180m, estimated to have a half-life in excess of 1015 years, far longer than the known age of the universe.
What is the Iraq War about?
The U.S. thought they had nuclear weapons..
Who thought of the nuclear bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Who thought of the idea to make a nuclear bomb?
H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel "The World Set Free" was the first to publish on the use of nuclear bombs in a war, he was the first to use the term atomic bomb to refer to bombs that obtain their energy from inside the atom (rather then from chemical reactions between atoms/molecules).Note: H. G. Wells atomic bombs were not based on using nuclear fission or nuclear fusion (as the real bombs are), as the nucleus of the atom had not yet been discovered and neither nuclear fission nor nuclear fusion had been discovered. As the only method of releasing the energy of the atom known at the time was radioactive decay, H. G. Wells based his atomic bombs (and atomic engines) on a hypothetical method of "accelerated radioactive decay".
Why were the Rosenbergs executed?
they were thought to have given nuclear bomb information to the soviets
What countries are trying to get nuclear weapons?
Syria is, in 2007 Israel conducted an air strike on what was thought to be a nuclear plant in construction.
Depend on nuclear energy?
When nuclear power plants started to be built, around 1960, they were thought to be able to provide cheaper power than conventional fossil fuels. Nowadays this is known to be over optimistic, however with the emphasis now on avoiding production of greenhouse gases, nuclear has advantages over fossil fuels. It is not likely though to overtake the use of fossil fuels for a long time to come.
Why did the cold war result in an arms race?
Because there was no true defense against nuclear weapons. Once both sides had nuclear weapons, the only way to "protect" themselves from the other side was to have so many more nuclear weapons that even if their enemies used all of their nuclear weapons, there would still be nuclear weapons to shoot back with. That way, nobody would use nuclear weapons, because they could never actually "win" that way. This thought process was referred to as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
