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How much plutonium was USED in little boy?

The Little Boy atomic bomb used about 64 kilograms (141 pounds) of highly-enriched uranium-235, not plutonium. Plutonium was used in the Fat Man bomb, which used about 6.2 kilograms (13.6 pounds) of plutonium.


How much plutonium used in nuclear bomb?

In the Nagasaki bomb, about 14 pounds. Design criteria on later weapons is classified.


How you build an atomic bomb?

To make a fission atomic bomb you just take either uranium or plutonium, which are fast-fission materials and find a way to smash the soul out of them so they can make neutrons to continue the chain reaction. You either just take some fissionable uranium, make a bullet out of one and a ball of the other, build a cannon-shaped bomb that shoots the bullet of uranium into the ball of uranium at the end of the barrel - and boom. To make the second kind, you need some plutonium. Plutonium is easy to obtain but it is extremely hard to make into a bomb, because if you shoot two masses of plutonium together like the uranium bomb style, they fission so much easier that they start reacting before they touch and blow themselves apart before anything can fission, so you will need to make a ball of plutonium crush in itself using a shock wave made by a explosion. You surround a ball of fissionable plutonium with explosive stuff. When the surrounding explosives goes boom, the shock waves made by the explosives hits the ball. This causes the plutonium to supercompress itself together - and boom.


How are atomic bombs made?

Much of the design particulars are top secret-Q but basically you need a mass of fissile material (usually plutonium) large enough to be able to reach supercritical mass and support an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. The explosion is triggered by compressing the plutonium by an implosion to assemble the initially subcritical mass into a supercritical mass rapidly (a couple milliseconds). once the material reaches supercritical mass, a neutron source is fired through it to start the reaction at the optimal time. about 4µs to 7µs later the bomb explodes. The longer the design is able to hold the bomb together, the higher the yield when it does disassemble.


What is the most powerful type of nuclear bomb?

The most powerful type of nuclear bomb is the hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb. These bombs use a two-stage process, with an initial fission reaction triggering a fusion reaction, resulting in a much larger explosion compared to atomic bombs.

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How much plutonium is in the second atomic bomb?

Nagasaki (Japan) - 9 August 1945 - a bomb containing 6,4 kg of Plutonium 239


How much plutonium was USED in little boy?

The Little Boy atomic bomb used about 64 kilograms (141 pounds) of highly-enriched uranium-235, not plutonium. Plutonium was used in the Fat Man bomb, which used about 6.2 kilograms (13.6 pounds) of plutonium.


How much plutonium would be required to make an atomic bomb as powerful as the one devastated in Nagasaki in World War 2?

Approx. 10 kg of plutonium 239.


How much plutonium used in nuclear bomb?

In the Nagasaki bomb, about 14 pounds. Design criteria on later weapons is classified.


How much did the plutonium device cost for the nuclear bomb?

The cost of the plutonium used in a nuclear bomb can vary greatly, depending on factors such as purity, quantity, and production method. However, estimates suggest that the plutonium used in a typical nuclear bomb could cost millions of dollars.


How much TNT is in a Plutonium Bomb?

Nuclear weapons with plutonium don't contain TNT.


Did the radiation improve in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb?

Yes, the radiation was much more abundant after the atomic bomb.


What does an atomic bomb use for its exploding power?

That depends, an atomic weapon from WWII was armed with plutonium 239, bombs now use a more dangerous Uranium armament. In order to use the bomb, a smaller explosion much trigger a chain reaction explosion in order to create, for lack of better terms, a "big bang".


How much neutrons and electrons are in plutonium?

All the isotopes of plutonium has 94 protons and 94 electrons. For the number of neutrons of a specified isotope: number of neutrons = rounded atomic mass of the isotope - atomic number (or protons number) For plutonium-239: 94 protons, 94 electrons, 145 neutrons. The atomic number of plutonium is 94.


How much would it cost today to build an atomic bomb today like the one US dropped on Japan?

The first atomic bombs cost billions because they had to learn how to gather uranium and plutonium into a form that was good enough for a bomb and they had to design the bomb. Now a nuclear missile cost would be probably about a million or more. The cost of the newer missile is in the housing and maintenance of the missile.


atomic bomb?

much more powerful than other bomb ,also called a neuclear bomb


How you build an atomic bomb?

To make a fission atomic bomb you just take either uranium or plutonium, which are fast-fission materials and find a way to smash the soul out of them so they can make neutrons to continue the chain reaction. You either just take some fissionable uranium, make a bullet out of one and a ball of the other, build a cannon-shaped bomb that shoots the bullet of uranium into the ball of uranium at the end of the barrel - and boom. To make the second kind, you need some plutonium. Plutonium is easy to obtain but it is extremely hard to make into a bomb, because if you shoot two masses of plutonium together like the uranium bomb style, they fission so much easier that they start reacting before they touch and blow themselves apart before anything can fission, so you will need to make a ball of plutonium crush in itself using a shock wave made by a explosion. You surround a ball of fissionable plutonium with explosive stuff. When the surrounding explosives goes boom, the shock waves made by the explosives hits the ball. This causes the plutonium to supercompress itself together - and boom.