The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States‚ the Soviet Union‚ and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War‚ in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles‚ other countries developed nuclear weapons‚ though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. The first nuclear weapon was created by the Manhattan Project during the Second World War and was developed to be used
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NUCLEAR ENERGY Nuclear energy is the energy contained in the centre ‚ or nucleus of an atom. The nucleus is the most powerful source of energy that exist. Nuclear energy is use in scientific research and in medicine treatments. It powers satellites and submarines‚ and it is used to produce electricity. People have also put nuclear energy to destructive uses through the creation of weapons.1 Nuclear energy also called ATOMIC ENERGY‚ energy
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and Juno; or else spacecraft must carry radioisotope thermoelectric generators. The successes of missions like Voyager‚ Pioneer‚ Galileo‚ Cassini-Huygens‚ and New Horizons require these nuclear power supplies‚ but Earth has run short of refined plutonium-238‚ preventing us from planning future
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Why Uranium and water? Why are these materials important? Well‚ they are relevant to me because it is the reason I had to move. For his job‚ my father worked at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant. Furthermore‚ uranium is the main fuel source for power plants across the country. After facing several economic problems the plant is forced to shut down‚ leaving over 400 employees jobless by next year‚ this unfortunate event lead to the need for a new job. Which prompted the switch from nuclear to hydroelectric
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In the summer of 1959‚ Vice President Nixon visited Sverdlovsk‚ Russia. During his travels‚ CIA agents were busy photographing Russian threats by aircraft on the way to and from Vice President Nixon’s visit. These photographs identified SAM (Surface to Air Missile) sites and other missile sites that posed a threat to incoming aircraft. These photographs were paramount in the planning of the Lockheed U-2C spy plane’s future flights. Much planning took place to make these U-2 spy plane flights happen
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the twenty five locations‚ Hanford‚Washington‚ Los Alamos‚New Mexico‚ and Oak Ridge‚ Tennessee was the three most prominent locations for building the atomic bombs. Fat Man was the third atomic bomb dropped in history‚ it contained 14 pounds of Plutonium and weighed 10‚300 pounds. Robert J. Oppenheimer once said‚ “ I am become death‚the destroyer of worlds”. The importance of this image is that the bomb is literal death and represents the damage created. They took the best scientists and placed them
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Protection Agency‚ 2010) Here are a select few sites that I picked that are in Washington: RICHLAND HANFORD 100-AREA (USDOE) 100 AREA WA3890090076 100 Area is where the nine former plutonium production reactors are found. These reactors were built from 1943 through 1965. These reactors were built along the banks of the Columbia River because of the abundance of hydro electric power and cooling water needed by the reactors during its
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Transuranic Elements and their Production Transuranic elements are elements that have an atomic number greater than 92. Transuranic elements have been synthesised in nuclear reactors or in high-energy particle accelerators. Neptunium and plutonium were the first transuranic elements to be synthesised in 1940 by Glenn Seaborg’s research team in the USA. Uranium 238 is bombarded with neutrons produced by the nuclear fission of U-235. Initially an isotope of uranium (U-239) forms which decays
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A scientific model is a representation of an idea‚ an object or even a process or a system that is used to describe and explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly. Periodicity is the quality or character of being periodic. The term periodic reflects the facts that the elements show patterns in their chemical properties in certain regular intervals. Two of the more common models include Bohr Model and Lewis Dot Model. Models play a very important role in the modern world i.e.‚ making predictions
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States prior to the start of World War ll. The first and only times that nuclear weapons were used in battle was against Japan in 1945. The United States dropped two different style of nuclear weapons on two different Japanese cities. One bomb used plutonium while the other used uranium to create the explosions. The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9‚ 1945. Estimates of deaths within the four months after the bombings ranged from 150‚000 to 250‚000 or more. About
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