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What is one difference between nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons?
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∙ 12y ago
- Reactors use thermal (slow) neutrons, fission weapons use fast neutrons.
- Reactors all use fission, weapons can use fission, fusion, or any combination.
- Reactors can use delayed fissions making them respond slowly to control changes, weapons complete their reaction too fast for delayed fissions to happen.
- Reactors have control rods and their energy release can be adjusted or even turned off, weapons have no controls and release all their energy in a few microseconds once triggered.
- etc.
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Is India nuclear free?
No, India has both civil nuclear power reactors and nuclear weapons
What does nuclear energy include?
Mostly power plants operating with fission reactors. Also experiments with nuclear fusion, and nuclear weapons
Is uranium used in solar energy?
Uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear reactors, for nuclear weapons, for other military applications and for other some modest civilian applications.
How much is plutonium worth?
Approx. 4ooo US $ per gram for nuclear weapons quality plutonium; the price for nuclear reactors grade plutonium is lower.
What does nuclear energy release?
It releases heat through absorption of the kinetic energy of the fragments of fission in the material of the fuel rods (talking of nuclear reactors, not weapons)
What fields are plutonium used in?
Nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons
Where uranium is presence most crucial?
Nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors Nuclear weapons
What is Plutonium used in at least 3 things?
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Batteries
Is India nuclear free?
No, India has both civil nuclear power reactors and nuclear weapons
In how many ways can the energy of uranium be used?
Only in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
How is Plutonium for atomic weapons currently obtained?
Plutonium for nuclear weapons is obtained in special nuclear reactors for plutonium-239.
What is the difference between nuclear weapons and normal weapons?
energy release aka yield
How has uranium changed the world?
The principal changes are: - fabrication of nuclear weapons - creation of nuclear power reactors - use of depleted uranium in weapons
Is nuclear reactors and nuclear energy the same thing?
Nuclear energy is released when U-235 undergoes fission, and that takes place in nuclear reactors (or nuclear weapons). So a reactor is a thing constructed to produce nuclear energy.
Examples of nuclear energy in the military?
Reactors power submarines and many surface ships. Nuclear weapons.
Is plutonium 239 fissionable?
Yes, this isotope is very fissionable and is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
What does nuclear energy include?
Mostly power plants operating with fission reactors. Also experiments with nuclear fusion, and nuclear weapons
