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What makes the largest percent of energy release in a nuclear detonation?
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What makes up a large percent of energy released in a nuclear detonation?
Most of the energy release is blast.
What would happen if you cut an element into smaller and smaller pieces?
Elements = atoms If you "cut" an element into pieces, essentially split the atom, you release its energy. This is called fission, nuclear fission to be precise, and leads to a nuclear detonation. Depending on the atom you split, there will be a release of energy and radiation.
What radiation is release upon detonation of a nuclear weapon?
A nuclear detonation creates a severe environment including blast, thermal pulse, neutrons, x- and gamma-rays, radiation, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and ionization of the upper atmosphere. Depending upon the environment in which the nuclear de-vice is detonated, blast effects are manifested as ground shock, water shock, "blueout," cratering, and large amounts of dust and radioactive fallout.
What makes the sun so hot and why?
Nuclear fusion ======================== It's the same atomic process responsible for the great release of energy during the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, except that it goes on continuously in the core of the sun.
What does a nuclear power plant release in he air when it expoldes?
When a nuclear power plant explodes the largest worry is that the fuel source, like Uranium or Plutonium, will be released. This in turn would release huge amounts of radiation into the surrounding area.
What are the release dates for Bleach - 2004 Kariya Countdown to the Detonation 5-14?
Bleach - 2004 Kariya Countdown to the Detonation 5-14 was released on: USA: 29 November 2006
What are the release dates for Stars Earn Stripes - 2012 Rapid Detonation - 1.3?
Stars Earn Stripes - 2012 Rapid Detonation - 1.3 was released on: USA: 27 August 2012
What would be the social consequences if a nuclear power plant exploded?
First and foremost, it is impossible for a nuclear power plant to explode. i.e. to go nuclear, because it is impossible for it to stay in prompt critical geometry long enough to consume the fuel for a runaway reaction to occur. Period. Not possible. Even if a terrorist organization infiltrated the facility and blew it up, that would be a chemical explosion, not a nuclear explosion. Yes, there would be release of radioactive materials to the environment, but it would not be a nuclear detonation as from a nuclear bomb. Get your heads straight around that. Its just not possible. The geometry is all wrong.
Why nuclear reactions are more explosive?
Nuclear reactions are more "explosive", i.e. energetic, because they depend on the release of binding energy, which is also called the strong force, or the strong interaction. (The four fundamental forces in nature are the strong force, the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and gravity.) Contrast this with chemical reactions, such as the detonation of TNT, and you have many, many more orders of magnitude per unit of source mass with nuclear.
What causes the explosive release of energy in the lightning bolt?
Unbelievably rapid resistive heating of air as millions of amperes of current flows through it. The air becomes nearly as hot as the core of a nuclear bomb and expands supersonically, forming a shock wave indistinguishable from that of the detonation of explosives.
What is the name of the process in which the nuclear fuels release energy?
Nuclear fission
What fuel were used for bomb?
Well, basic explosives really. Timers or detonation triggers. (The D.T.'s were for putting in the tip of the warhead, for detonation.). Sometimes gunpowder, sometimes gasoline. But for the more destructive ones, atoms that are split and awaiting energy release.
