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Where did the enriched uranium for the Little Boy atomic bomb come from?
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∙ 14y ago
The uranium enrichment facilty was at Oak Ridge.
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What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.
What is nickname for the bomb in hiroshima?
the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy", and it used the element of uranium-235.
Are the atomic bomb and depleted uranium the same weapon?
No, the atomic bomb and depleted uranium are not the same thing. Nuclear weapons are made with enriched uranium or with plutonium as the fissionable material. Depleted uranium is uranium that is "left over" after natural uranium is put through a process called enrichment to inprove the concentration of the isotope U-235 over that in natural uranium. The enriched uranium with its higher percentage of U-235 is fissionable, and it can be used in nuclear reactors and in nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium is used to make armor-piercing projectiles, and can be put through the neutron flux in an operating reactor to be transformed (transmuted) into plutonium. Use the links below to related questions to learn more.
What were the first two WW2 atomic bombs made of?
The first a-bomb called (Little Boy) was a uranium gun-type atomic bomb.The second a-bomb called (Fat Man) was a plutonium implosion-type bomb.
What are some atomic bomb gases?
Uranium &Plutonium
What was the nuclear core of the atomic bomb?
fissile material: highly enriched uranium or plutonium
What type of chemical did Little boy have more of plutonium or uranium?
Little boy was a bomb with highly enriched uranium.
Elements in atomic bomb?
Atomic bombs contain uranium (highly enriched in the isotope 235U) or plutonium (a very specific isotopic composition).
What is the Uranium bomb?
A bomb containing highly enriched uranium (in the isotope 235U) as explosive.
Which type of fissionable material is used in an atomic bomb?
Either highly enriched uranium-235 or reactor produced plutonium.
What is the procedure to make atomic bomb?
Uranium or plutonium is enriched to create to create a core capable of nuclear fusion and fission.
What was the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb made of?
The explosion was made by uranium.
On 1945 was the bomb dropped on hiroshima a atomic bomb or a uranium bomb?
It was both: an atomic bomb using uranium as its fuel.
What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.
What was little boy atomic bomb made of?
Unarium I think you mean uranium.
How enriched does uranium have to be to become a bomb?
More than 99 %
Why is enriched uranium is preferred over natural uranium as a fuel in thermal reactors?
The uranium isotope that is actually useful (whether for a reactor, or for an atomic bomb) is U-235. Natural uranium contains only about 0.7% of this; the remainder is mainly U-238. Therefore, it must be enriched, to have a greater percentage of U-235.
