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Where do powerplants get uranium?
Power plants typically source uranium from mines located around the world. The uranium is mined, processed, and then enriched to the appropriate level for use in nuclear reactors. Some uranium may also come from reprocessed nuclear fuel.
Where does hydrogen for bomb making come from?
There are 2 isotopes of hydrogen needed to make a hydrogen bomb: deuterium and tritium. Deuterium occurs naturally in small amounts mixed with ordinary hydrogen (just like uranium-235 occurs naturally in small amounts in natural uranium), it is obtained by a heavy water enrichment cascade using ordinary water as the input feed. Tritium does not occur naturally and must be manufactured by irradiating lithium with neutrons. Lithium is mined from the ground. The easiest way to manufacture the tritium for a hydrogen bomb is the in situ processwhere the bomb does it itself. The fuel for such a hydrogen bomb is lithium deuteride, fission generated neutrons irradiate the lithium deuteride, manufacturing tritium which mixes with the deuterium and the bomb is now ready to explode!Using a mixture of deuterium and tritium isotopes of hydrogen in the fusion bomb makes it practical as this mixture has the lowest ignition temperature.So to sum up your answer:deuterium is taken from watertritium is manufactured in the bomb from lithium, which is mined from the ground
What language does Uranium come from?
It is a mined material that comes from places like Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan. Canada is the world's largest producer of the raw material.
Does Uranium 238 and 235 release neutrons in nature as they do in a fission process?
Uranium-238 and Uranium-235 do not release neutrons spontaneously in nature in the same way they do during a fission process. Neutrons are typically required to initiate the fission process in nuclear reactions. In natural settings, radioactive decay processes such as alpha and beta decay occur in uranium isotopes, but not neutron release.
How does uranium fuel get heated in a nuclear reactor?
Fuel in a nuclear reactor is heated by fission reactions. In fission, fuel atoms absorb a neutron, become unstable, and "split apart" into a two approximately equal parts. These parts are called fission fragments, and they come away from the fission event with tremendous kinetic (mechanical) energy. As this happens in a fuel element, the atomic nuclei can travel only a tiny distance before slamming into nearby atoms. This activity is extremely violent on the atomic scale, and it generates a lot of thermal energy (heat). The heat will get fuel element very hot, and that thermal energy will be collected and carried away by the primary coolant in the reactor.
Where did the enriched uranium for the Little Boy atomic bomb come from?
The uranium enrichment facilty was at Oak Ridge.
How did the us come to develop the atomic bomb?
The U.S. wanted to prevent Germany from becoming the first country to build an atomic bomb which would give Germany formative power. General Leslie R. Groves was put in charge of The Manhattan Project to develop the bomb, and scientists use theories about nuclear fission to construct bombs with the elements of Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. The first successful bomb was code-named "Trinity," and it exploded on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, the United States dropped the bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima.
Can there be an atomic bomb on earth?
Although your question is vague, atomic bombs have come and gone in terms of technology. We now have conventional weapons that are more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Why the atomic bomb happend?
Why was it exploded over Nagasaki and Hiroshima?Or, "How did it come to be?"It came to be because of centuries of inventions leading up to it and the seeming necessity of it when it was learned the Germans were 'working' on the concept and the thought of the genocidal Nazis ruling the world.
Why did the United States take that decision to bomb hiroshima and nagasaki?
shiortly after pearl harbor was bomb and the united states had to come back and hit them harder
When did the nuclear bomb come into existence?
I suggest Richard Rhodes book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.1945
What was Robert oppenheimers reaction to the usage of the atomic bomb?
" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people of this world must unite or they will perish. " Robert Oppenheimer .
Diameter of destruction from atomic bomb?
Depends on the size of the bomb (they come in many different sizes- bigger is more destructive) and how high the bomb is above ground when it explodes. Most are set to explode when several hundred feet above ground.
Did Canada create the first atomic bomb?
No. The first atomic bombs were created by the US Army Corps of Engineers, under the cover name of the Manhattan Project, during World War II. Some of the uranium ore which was refined into nuclear explosives for the bombs may have come from Canada.
What happens to the people in the story there will come soft rains?
They died from an atomic bomb
Where did the money come from to make an atomic bomb?
Taxes, War Bonds, etc.
How powerful is the atomic bomb?
Atomic bombs come in a wide variety of sizes. Their explosive power is usually measured in terms of an equivalent number of tons of dynamite. Smaller bombs range in the kilotons (thousands of tons) while larger bombs are in the range of megatons (millions of tons). Even a small atomic bomb is extremely powerful, much more powerful than any conventional bomb. A large atomic bomb can destroy an entire city.
