The uranium enrichment facilty was at Oak Ridge.
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.
the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy", and it used the element of uranium-235.
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.
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.
Uranium &Plutonium
The Little Boy bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, used enriched uranium-235 as its fuel. This type of bomb is known as a uranium-based atomic bomb, and it functions through the process of nuclear fission.
fissile material: highly enriched uranium or plutonium
Little boy was a bomb with highly enriched uranium.
While the atomic bomb was not made in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the uranium used in the bomb was enriched at the Oak Ridge facility as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Oak Ridge played a significant role in the development of the atomic bomb by providing the enriched uranium needed for the bomb's construction.
The uranium used in the Hiroshima atomic bomb came from the Oak Ridge facility in Tennessee, where it was enriched as part of the Manhattan Project. The uranium used was the isotope uranium-235, which was extracted and purified from natural uranium ore.
A bomb containing highly enriched uranium (in the isotope 235U) as explosive.
Uranium or plutonium is enriched to create to create a core capable of nuclear fusion and fission.
Either highly enriched uranium-235 or reactor produced plutonium.
The explosion was made by uranium.
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.
It was both: an atomic bomb using uranium as its fuel.
An atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15 AM on the 6th of August, 1945.