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The critical mass of plutonium is lower, plutonium is not so expensive as highly enriched uranium, the technology to obtain plutonium is more simple than the isotopic separa-tion of uranium, etc.
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What 2 radioactive elements were chosen for the atomic bomb?
Uranium and Plutonium
How many kilograms of Uranium-238 did the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki each contain?
None. The first atomic bomb was made with enriched uranium. Note: There is a "slight technicality" with this one. Here's the deal. Any time that a small quantity (or a slightly larger quantity) of uranium is found, either in nature or in the physics lab, there will be a tiny bit of plutonium in the sample. Only the tiniest bit, but it will be there. Uranium's isotopes are all unstable, and they will decay by spontaneous fission or alpha emission. Within that decay environment, a few atoms of uranium are transformed into atoms of plutonium. As stated, it's a "technicality" as such, but it's a fact.
Which type of fissionable material is used in an atomic bomb?
Either highly enriched uranium-235 or reactor produced plutonium.
What are the limitation of plutonium?
Plutonium is obtained from uranium irradiated in nuclear reactors, consequently the production of plutonium depends on uranium resources.
What element uses breeder reactor uranium or plutonium?
Uranium and plutonium are both actinides that are used in nuclear reactors.
Which atomic bomb used uranium and which used plutonium?
Hiroshima bomb: uranium Nagasaki bomb: plutonium
What is a uranium bomb?
A uranium bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by uranium-235A plutonium bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by plutonium-239A composite bomb is an atomic bomb fueled by both uranium-235 and plutonium-239A wet bomb is a hydrogen bomb fueled by liquefied deuterium/tritiumA dry bomb is a hydrogen bomb fueled by solid lithium deuteride
Which is the best fuel for nuclear bomb plutonium or uranium?
Plutonium
What goes in an atomic bomb?
uranium or plutonium
What the atomic bomb made of?
Uranium and plutonium
What atomich bomb made of?
Uranium or Plutonium
What are some atomic bomb gases?
Uranium &Plutonium
What elements are in the atomic bomb?
Uranium plutonium and hydrogen
What happens when plutonium fuses with uranium to make a bomb?
Nothing special. Atomic bombs can be built with either uranium, plutonium, or composite (plutonium/uranium) cores. All work the same.
What 2 radioactive elements were chosen for the atomic bomb?
Uranium and Plutonium
What is the difference between nuclear bomb and plutonium bomb?
A nuclear bomb is any bomb with any nuclear or atomic material inside it, while a plutonium bomb is a specific type of nuclear bomb. Plutonium could be the nuclear material inside the bomb, and if it is, it's a plutonium bomb.
What was the element needed for the atomic bomb?
they used uranium and plutonium.
