Although their functions could not be more dissimilar, nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons both fall completely under the purview of the DOE. This is incredibly significant when considering that the US military budget, which tops all other countries in the world, isn’t required to report th...
When the Unit 4 reactor exploded, the other three reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station were also shut down. But they were all restarted within a year and a half or so, despite international condemnation. Thousands of plant operators continued going to work, only to see a turbine h...
The universe's uranium formed 6.6 billion years ago in supernovae, according to theWorld Nuclear Association. It is all over the planet, and makes up about 2 to 4 parts per million of most rocks. It is 48th among the most abundant elements found in natural crustal rock, according to the...
pledging the reduction of strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 ready-to-use weapons in both nations. This will reduce the current US nuclear arsenal by about 30%, resulting in savings of USD 9.69 billion every year. All this data is sourced from information provided by the Carnegie Endowment...
Nuclear energy would be dominant source of energy by now if it hadn’t been Chernobyl and Three Miles island (nuclear disasters). Nuclear energy can be very destroying. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. The bombs killed as man...
(source)and more info about nuclear fusion in the sun The Energy From The Sun The total energy output from the sun is apparently 386 billion million megawatts. Every second the sun produces the same energy as about a trillion 1 megaton bombs. ...
But then we started blowing stuff up with nuclear bombs and VOILA!, there are now detectable, but safe, levels of Cesium-137 in all the world oceans. WHAT DO THE MAPS OF FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC REALLY TELL US? There are a bunch of maps being thrown around on the internet ...
The bombs developed under his direction were subsequently used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. Despite the project’s success, Oppenheimer later expressed deep moral reservations about the use of nuclear weapons...
Check Your Facts: Cox Report Bombs.(controversy over congressional investigation into security breaches at US nuclear labs)Cohen, Sam
Given the threat posed by Nazi Germany’s development of nuclear weapons, the US government began to conduct its own research on atomic weapons. Facilities were constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the War Department under the top-secret program, code named “The Manhattan Project...