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Can a nuclear power plant turn into a atomic bomb?
No, a reactor is operated at critical and a bomb at supercritical. Also reactors include safety shutdown systems that quickly make them subcritical stopping the reaction.However reactors can have steam explosions and hydrogen/oxygen explosions. These are physical and chemical explosions respectively, not nuclear.
How much heat can an atomic bomb create?
Atomic bombs are a perfect example of a nuclear reaction that causes massive destruction. Atom bombs have a power equivalent to millions of tons of ordinary explosive. The temperatures of fusion nuclear explosions can go up into the millions of kelvin.
What is the difference between the three types of ballistics?
What is the difference between the three types of ballistics
Which of these observations led to the law of triads?
The average of two atomic weights for a group of three elements equaled the atomic weight of the third.
Does an explosion produce light?
Not necessarily. Many of the explosions we are familiar with involve high-temperature chemical reactions, which do release light. Explosions at lower temperature, such as steam explosions, do not produce light.
Types of nuclear and atomic explosions?
fissionfusionboosted fissionmultistage fusion
What phobia is the fear of atomic explosions?
atomosophobia
How do you determine the numbers of the three types of particles in each atom?
In an atom, no. of protons = no. of electrons=atomic no. no. of neutrons=atomic mass-atomic no.
What is the fear of a nuclear holocaust called?
Atomosophobia - fear of atomic explosions.
What are the three major causes of tsunmami's?
Earthquakes, volcanic explosions, and other underwater explosions.
What is the phobia name for Fear of atomic explosions?
The accepted phobia name for this condition is Atomosophobia.
What types of waves are produced by waves and explosions?
seismic waves
What phobia is the fear of explosions?
The closest thing is Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.Bear in mind that a phobia is an unreasonable fear of a thing or event- and a fear of explosions may not BE an unreasonable thing.
Are nuclear explosions -like atomic bombs- possible?
The United States had an incident in the Three Mile Island and Ukraine had one in Chernobyl but the results were not compared as the results reached on Japan in world war two.
Which is bigger a nuclear or atomic explosion?
Nuclear explosions are the result of splitting the atom. It is actually what powers the sun.
What types of waves are produced by earthquakes and explosions?
seismic waves
What effect did the use of atomicbomb have on the outcome of world war 2?
The atomic bomb explosions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war.
