During and after World War II Australia began supplying uranium for the US and UK ’s weapons programs‚ and this is how Australia got involved. British weapons tests in South Australia and Western Australia 1952-63 left a long line of health problems for Aborigines and armed service personnel‚ as well as significant environmental damage. Let ’s face it. We don ’t want safe nuclear power plants. We want NO nuclear power plants —A spokesman for the Government Accountability Project‚ an offshoot of
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American soldiers would have died. The military turned to The Manhattan Project‚ the secret multi-billion dollar military project that had been developing nuclear weapons for four years‚ and asked for a way to destroy Japan efficiently. They took a uranium bomb‚ nicknamed Little Boy‚ and dropped it on a large military town on the coast of the main island‚ Hiroshima. The outcome was exactly what they wanted and maybe even more. Leo Szilard‚ a Hungarian physicist‚ discovered the possibility of nuclear
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There are several things in science that are really misunderstood‚ like vaccines‚ microwaves‚ and GMOs. But one that is really misunderstood is radiation. First‚ what is radiation? When people talk about radiation or radioactivity‚ they usually talk about microwaves (which don’t cause cancer)‚ X-rays‚ a green thing that glows in the dark‚ the Incredible Hulk‚ or the song by Imagine Dragons. The actual definition is the emission of high energy particles or waves. This can mean many things‚ but the
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naval propulsion and for making electricity. This resulted in the nuclear reactor be created to power submarines a ships. Since 1956 the prime focus has been on the technological evolution of reliable nuclear power plants. The discovery of it Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth‚ a German chemist‚ and named after the planet Uranus. Enrico Fermi is considered a major figure in the discovery of nuclear energy. He was the first scientist to discover the split of the atom.
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environmental waste which causes a lot of damage to the environment. For nuclear energy‚ the main source that fuels it is uranium. Uranium sources are just as finite as things like coal and cause a larger sum of environmental waste that is very costly to get rid of. This waste is a result of the process of mining‚ refining‚ and transporting the uranium. Furthermore‚ the waste produced form the uranium lasts a long time in the environment. Often this waste can last up to 200 to 500 thousand years causing various
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New technology and research for nuclear material was an essential part in building a nuclear weapon. The most important element for making nuclear weapons is uranium. Uranium is used to make plutonium‚ a very powerful element‚ by deuteron bombardment of uranium oxide. Uranium‚ a gray-colored element‚ is mined from the common uranium ores. Common isotopes‚ such as‚ radioactive sulfur (S35)‚ radioactive carbon (C14)‚ radioactive phosphorus (P32) and strontium (Sr90) were a great safety hazard
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1) Nuclear power generation does emit relatively low amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The emissions of green house gases and therefore the contribution of nuclear power plants to global warming is therefore relatively little. Between mining the uranium‚ refining and enriching fuel‚ and finally to building and operating the plant‚ a big 1‚250 250-megawatt nuclear facility produces an estimated 250‚000 tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. In contrast‚ coal-fired plants produce close to 2 billion
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growing controversial topic in Australia; because the demands of utilizing electricity are increasing rapidly. According to a recent study‚ Australia has 23% of the world’s uranium deposits and is the second largest producer of uranium. Which leads to one question‚ why isn’t Australia using nuclear power plants‚ when 23% of uranium deposits can be used to produce enough electricity to last several centuries. Well this is why I am here today‚ to answer this “heavily
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the decay of uranium-238 to lead-206. This kind of dating use primarily used in dating objects some of which are rocks. This is a figure of the decay series
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in Berlin at the German National Physical Laboratory‚ where I worked in the optics division for Carl Müller. Here‚ I also worked with my aunt Lise Meitner‚ who was also a physicist. She and I worked together for twenty years. She also discovered uranium fission with her friend Otto Hahn who was a German chemist. I really enjoyed my three years in Berlin. I made a lot of interesting research‚ met a lot of new associates‚ and even met my childhood hero‚ Albert Einstein‚ who was a personal friend of
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