Nuclear Weapons

Atoms in an atom bomb undergo a nuclear fission or fusion process, where their nuclei split or combine to release an enormous amount of energy. This energy is released rapidly, causing an explosion. Despite being small, the immense energy involved in these nuclear reactions is what makes atom bombs so powerful.

Disarray in the nuclear lamina, a network of proteins providing structural support to the nucleus, can lead to problems in maintaining the shape of the nucleus, disruption of nuclear envelope integrity, and altered chromatin organization. This can result in impaired nuclear functions such as gene expression, DNA replication, and cell division. Additionally, it may contribute to the development of certain diseases like progeria and muscular dystrophy.

There are two technically difficult aspects of making a nuclear weapon. First, you have to have a sufficient amount known as a critical mass, of some fissile material, usually plutonium or the U235 isotope of uranium. Secondly, you have to have a mechanism that will bring together the two halves of the fissile material extremely rapidly. If they do not come together rapidly enough, instead of the desired chain reaction you just get a lot of heat, and the device melts (much like a melt-down of a nuclear reactor). That's the key. I will leave the details to you.

Highly unlikely if not altogether impossible.

In a core meltdown, you might see a steam explosion if the core melts and breaches the containment structure and hits say cooling water. But even a runaway chain reaction in a reactor would not cause a nuclear explosion like a bomb.

Setting up a nuclear power plant takes a lot of doing. To set up a nuclear power plant, you'll need some cash from investors. Buy some land with a condition that permits will be approved for building that plant there. You'll have to have a reliable water source, and also a place to tie to the heavy lines of the electrical distribution system. Do you have a place picked out?

Favorably clear your environmental impact report and the public opinion period. Have your plant designed and approved, then constructed and fueled. The federal oversight crew will watch you start up and test your plant. Then, with your operating permit in hand, just bring the plant on line and start generating power and collecting money, which you return to your investors.

No.. Entirely impossible. There've been a couple meltdowns such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, A few scattered partial meltdowns, and a bunch of Russian Submarines. But the reactor is in no way designed to explode. They have to MAKE it explode for atomic bombs. You can't just pick up some uranium and set it on fire and hope it blows up. Explosions can happen and kick radioactive material around, but there won't be some huge mushroom cloud a mile wide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown for more information.

There were no reports of a nuclear explosion in Germany between 1990-1992. Germany does not have a history of nuclear weapons testing and there have been no instances of nuclear explosions in the country during that time period.

• An uncontrolled neutron chain reaction in a supercritical mass of fissile material.
• Very high temperature and pressure, enough to ignite thermonuclear fusion in fusion fuel.

Applications of plutonium:

• explosive in nuclear weapons

• nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors

• the isotope 238Pu is used as energy source in spacecrafts or other applications (radioisotope thermoelectric generators)

• neutron generator, as Pu-Be source

A supercritical mass of fissile material rapidly assembled with explosives, then triggered by a carefully timed pulse of neutrons from a neutron source. That's about as simple and general as it gets.

Nuclear power plants do not destroy the world. While there are risks associated with nuclear power, such as accidents and radioactive waste disposal, when operated safely and responsibly, nuclear power can provide a reliable source of clean energy. Stringent regulations and safety measures are in place to minimize these risks and ensure the safe operation of nuclear power plants.

There are 2 main nuclear weapons labs. 1 at Los Alamos, NM (established 1943) and 1 at Livermore, CA (established 1952). Each weapons lab eventually had a nearby branch of Sandia Labs (Los Alamos in Kirkland AFB in Albquequeque, NM and Livermore nearby in Livermore, CA) that designed the non-nuclear parts of the weapons. Once designed and prototypes built and tested production was moved to a factory like PANTEX outside Amarillo, TX. Dozens of facilities across the country supplied these labs and factories with nuclear and non-nuclear components; including Hanford, WA (plutonium metal), Oakridge, TN (enriched uranium metal), Fernald, OH (plutonium and uranium extrusions and machined parts), etc.

The principle of a hydrogen bomb involves the fusion of hydrogen isotopes (deuterium and tritium) to release an immense amount of energy. This fusion reaction is triggered by the intense heat and pressure generated by a fission reaction, typically from a plutonium or uranium bomb. The result is a highly powerful and destructive explosion.

Nuclear power plants have multiple safety features in place to prevent accidents, such as redundancies in cooling systems, containment structures, and strict regulatory oversight. Reactors are also designed to shut down automatically in case of a malfunction. Additionally, ongoing inspections and maintenance help ensure the safe operation of the plant.

Well if you don't know its a bomb and its actually called nuclear bomb, nuke is short for nuclear. It has the power to destroy a whole NATION. And to answer your other question it looks a missle. if don't know what a missle looks like, you can look up Missles and or nuclear bomb on Google images

electrical - about 1000Mwatt, physical - varies with design, can't give exact figure.

The reactor itself, in a typical 1 GW plant, is smaller than you might think: about the size of a large bathroom or small bedroom. The containment vessel is comparatively huge, and largely empty.

A nuclear bomb is any bomb with any nuclear or atomic material inside it, while a plutonium bomb is a specific type of nuclear bomb. Plutonium could be the nuclear material inside the bomb, and if it is, it's a plutonium bomb.

There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases. At present there are 442 nuclear reactors in operation around the world. If, as the nuclear industry suggests, nuclear power were to replace fossil fuels on a large scale, it would be necessary to build 2000 large, 1000-megawatt reactors. Considering that no new nuclear plant has been ordered in the US since 1978, this proposal is less than practical. Furthermore, even if we decided today to replace all fossil-fuel-generated electricity with nuclear power, there would only be enough economically viable uranium to fuel the reactors for three to four years.

The true economies of the nuclear industry are never fully accounted for. The cost of uranium enrichment is subsidised by the US government. The true cost of the industry's liability in the case of an accident in the US is estimated to be $US560billion ($726billion), but the industry pays only $US9.1billion - 98per cent of the insurance liability is covered by the US federal government. The cost of decommissioning all the existing US nuclear reactors is estimated to be $US33billion. These costs - plus the enormous expense involved in the storage of radioactive waste for a quarter of a million years - are not now included in the economic assessments of nuclear electricity.

It is said that nuclear power is emission-free. The truth is very different.

In the US, where much of the world's uranium is enriched, including Australia's, the enrichment facility at Paducah, Kentucky, requires the electrical output of two 1000-megawatt coal-fired plants, which emit large quantities of carbon dioxide, the gas responsible for 50per cent of global warming.

Also, this enrichment facility and another at Portsmouth, Ohio, release from leaky pipes 93per cent of the chlorofluorocarbon gas emitted yearly in the US. The production and release of CFC gas is now banned internationally by the Montreal Protocol because it is the main culprit responsible for stratospheric ozone depletion. But CFC is also a global warmer, 10,000 to 20,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

The element is einsteinium, with the atomic number 99. It was first discovered in the debris of the first thermonuclear test, Ivy Mike, in 1952. Einsteinium does not occur in nature and is typically produced by bombarding plutonium or uranium with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.

A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, is a type of nuclear weapon that derives its energy from nuclear fusion reactions. It involves the fusion of hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium, which release enormous amounts of energy. Hydrogen bombs are significantly more powerful than atomic bombs.

No.

There were four reactors at the Chernobyl plant, one melted down in 1986, one was shut down permanently following a fire in 1991, and the other two stopped producing power in December of 2000. The plant is scheduled to be deconstructed.

There is a plan, announced in 2007, to build an improved sarcophagus for the reactor that melted down, as the original was very hastily designed and built, and cannot be relied on for any length of time.