almost instantaneously‚ radioactive elements such as cesium and strontium‚ which possess longer half-lives‚ will continue to contaminate the environment‚ rendering it unsuitable for life. To make matters worse‚ plutonium is commonly used in nuclear weapons‚ and since not all of the plutonium has been splitted up‚ it can become a tremendous threat. Not only has a long half-life of 27‚000 years‚ but just a microgram of can consequently cause inexorable‚ devastating tumors to the bones and lungs (Atomic
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The Power Crisis in Tamil Nadu Viable Remedial Measure to Over Come K Chandrasekar1* C Bharath Kumar2 Load shedding which was originally meant for an hour or so‚ has now been extended to Abstract: Electric generation system in Tamil Nadu is suffering with a serious problem of load shedding‚ power shortage due industrial and technological development without having any proper intension for increasing the resource of power. But we have the immense resource to fulfill our power need. As India is subtropical
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Chapter 1 * * Energy is the ability to do work * It can be measured in food Calories‚ kilowatt-hours and joules * Gasoline has about 10 Cal per gram * Cookies have about 5 * TNT has about 0.65 * Expensive batteries about 0.1 Cal * Fuel cells produce electricity like batteries but are recharged by adding chemicals * Uranium has 20 million Calories per gram * Power is the rate of energy delivery and can be measured in Cal/sec or in watts * 1 hp = 1 kW
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those white clouds are actually just the water vapor that has been used to cool the systems‚ it is not toxic and therefore does not pollute the air. Nuclear energy uses either plutonium or uranium‚ depending on the type of the reactor. Nuclear reactors produce less waste than any other type of energy source. One pound of plutonium can produce the same amount of energy as 50‚000 barrels of oil. The number of deaths caused by coal powered plants is about 24‚000 a year. There were only 56 direct deaths
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responsible for providing the Soviet Union with crucial information about the Manhattan project and the development of the atom bomb‚ the importance and value of the information that he gave the Russians is unfathomable. “By handing over the secret of the plutonium bomb and implosion to the Soviets‚ Fuchs allowed the Soviet bomb project to skip the length and astounding expensive development stage that had led the Manhattan project to that solution.” Fuchs alone sped the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb program
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster A First-Hand Account of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Katsumi Furitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Young doctors speak out on the Fukushima disaster . . . . . . . . . . .40 Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare Ronald McCoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 “A terribly difficult situation with a lot of uncertainties”: PSR Press Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Nuclear Power Debate In 1953‚ nuclear energy was introduced into America as a cheap and efficient energy source‚ favoured in place of increasingly scarce fossil fuels which caused air pollution. Its initial use was welcomed by the general public‚ as it was hoped to lower the price of electricity‚ and utilise nuclear power for it’s potential as a resource‚ not a weapon. However‚ as people became aware of the long term dangers involved in storing nuclear waste‚ it’s use was criticised. Two
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entirely comprised of metal. Shikha: It is also near its reaction point. I think that it comes from the rings of Saturn. Jupiter’s gravity must have pulled it out. Rohit: Wait. What is this message from Sirius 334? It says that they have detected a plutonium asteroid heading towards the asteroid construction colony above china! Deep: What? The china construction colony ? Wait ‚ isn’t there where the uranium asteroid is supposed to reach its reaction point? Akash: Yes! I think
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During World War II the Allies needed to find some sort of weapon to finally get Japan to surrender. When they found out that Japan had been trying to build some sort of weapon with uranium‚ then decided they would try it out also. They did some experiments‚ and when they figured out that Japan was building a bomb bigger than any other bomb in the world they decided that they had to build it first. So they got everybody that they thought could be helpful‚ They had scientists from all of the different
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energy. There are two ways as of right now to make a nuclear energy or a nuclear weapon. The first way is to Send uranium ore to centrifuges and have it enriched(Broad). The other way is to send uranium ore to an Arak reactor and have it produce plutonium(Broad). Then these reactors concentrate the uranium. Iran can use both of these options to make weapons of mass destruction. When Iran is producing a lot of uranium and concentrating it into high levels‚ it can mean nuclear war for the US that why
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