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Which type of device causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
A conventional bomb enclosed in a jacket of highly radioactive isotopes. However it will probably kill the builders before they can use it. This is called a "radiological weapon", a radiation dispersal device or a "dirty bomb".
Such a radiation dispersal device could be a "dirty bomb" but since the question does not include phrases like harmful, or detrimental and no limit is placed on "device" it is necessary to include alternate answers.
These would be:
- Hardware stores and similar hat sell ionizing radiation smoke detectors which contain Americium
- Jewelry shops that sell tritium powered luminescent watches
- Bone density examinations which infuse a persons body with short lived radioisotopes
- Sellers of radioactive sources to labs and inspection firms
- Antique shops with old radium dialed watches and clocks
- Earth satellite programs with nuclear power sources which burn up on reentry
- Manufacturers of granite counter tops which contain uranium
- US forces using depleted uranium shell and bullets
- Coal fired power plants which have uranium in their stack gases
- Drywall manufacturers whose products emit radon
One instance of this was in the 1950s Hanford site Green Run, where they took material direct from the reactors and processed it, allowing Iodine-131 and other radioisotopes to go out the processing plant stack and travel east over the rest of the country in the wind. Normally they allowed the material from the reactors to decay in cooling ponds for several weeks to remove these isotopes before processing. They tracked the radioactive plume from the Green Run to develop a model of dispersal, because it was believed the USSR was operating their plants this way to accelerate Plutonium production. If the USSR was doing this, it was hoped that the model developed from the Green Run data would allow accurate estimations of the size of the USSR's stockpile.
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What type of device causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
radiation dispersal device
Which type of device causes purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
radiation dispersal device
Which type of device causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without nuclear detonation?
Radiation dispersal device
Type of device causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
radiation dispersal device
What type of device cause the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
radiating dispersal device
Does a high-altitude burst cause the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
No, a high altitude burst usually reduces the fallout generated, also it is a nuclear detonation.
Which type if device causes the purposeful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without?
radiation dipersal device
Which type of device causes the powerful dissemination of radioactive material across an area without a nuclear detonation?
A "dirty bomb", a type of radiological weapon, can disseminate radioactive materials by means of a conventional explosion. Dirty bombs are potential terrorist weapons since advanced knowledge of physics and actinide chemistry are not needed to construct such a weapon.
What term is used to describe an incomplete detonation?
A partial detonation is when only part of the explosive material detonates, leaving some of the material unreacted.
Can radioactive be recycled?
Yes, there are a number of uses for radioactive material. It depends on the type of radioactive material.
What therm is used to describe an incomplete detonation?
An incomplete detonation is often referred to as a "deflagration." This term describes a combustion process where the reaction moves through the explosive material at a slower rate compared to a detonation.
What is defreent between radioactve and nuclear material?
Radioactive material refers to substances that emit radiation spontaneously, while nuclear material is any material that can undergo nuclear reactions such as fission or fusion. Essentially, all radioactive material is nuclear material, but not all nuclear material is necessarily radioactive.
