it has slightly more U-235 than it did before. You place this slightly concentrated gas in another centrifuge and do the same thing. If you do this thousands of times, you can create a gas that is highly enriched in U-235. At a uranium enrichment plant...
Memorial Day is a holiday to remember the servicemen and women who gave their lives for our country. It may be hard to believe, but according to a new survey, most Americans actually didn't know this. An online poll conducted by the University of Phoenix found that only 43% of Americans...
This advancement is perhaps best captured by the emergence of PGP. While PGP had the potential to grow into a technology that could undermine government mass-surveillance, in the 1990s its use remained niche. One of PGP’s main challenges was that, in Bruce Schneier’s words ‘it lived and...
The Amendment is about presidential succession and disability and what exactly should happen if a president leaves office.
more commonly, fission is used to generate energy within a nuclear power plant. power plants typically use uranium and plutonium isotopes because these reactions are easiest to control, according to the department of energy . to keep these chain reactions in check, power plants cool the nuclear ...
HEISENBERG: Did they use the word uranium in connection with this atomic bomb? ALL: No. HEISENBERG:Then it’s got nothing to do with atoms,but the equivalent of 20,000 tons of high explosive is terrific. […] GERLACH: Would it be possible that they have got an engine [reactor] running...
Churchill might have been forced to resign and a different War Cabinet might have preferred to end the conflict and preserve what is left of the British Empire and concentrate on its oversea areas instead, if it could guarantee peace in Europe. This naturally would have meant that American forc...
Fission is the process by which an atom splits into two, generating two smaller atoms and a tremendous amount of energy. Fission powers nuclear bombs and power plants.