Depleted uranium

Uranium is a radioactive element used for power and nuclear weapons. Many people might not know anything about the element and what it can do to human bodies, cities, and countries. I chose this topic because uranium is an incredibly powerful element that can have major consequences, and I want to explain why we should not use it in today’s world. After World War II, uranium became a huge scientific development on finding out how powerful it is, what it can be used for, and how it can be…

Neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in the universe second only to photons, yet they are one of the most elusive particles known to man. The neutrino is essentially a near massless subatomic particle possessing a neutral charge. Neutrinos scarcely interact with normal matter as a consequence of having a neutral charge and a mass of almost zero. There are three flavors of neutrinos: electron, tau, and muon; many neutrinos oscillate between these flavors. Neutrinos can be produced in…

A metalloid is a chemical element. Because of the name, most people would believe that a metalloid is metal, but that is incorrect. A metalloid only has some of the qualities that metals have. Two examples of metalloids would be germanium and silicon. These metalloids are used in everyday life, and our lives would be very much different without them. Germanium was discovered in the year of 1886 by a chemist named Winkler. The metalloid was named after Germany. When germanium is purified, it is a…

Uranium is a chemical element that is naturally radioactive. Its symbol is U. Uranium is a radioactive silvery-white metallic element of the actinide series. Uranium has 235 isotopes. Most nuclear power plants use uranium as fuel because its atoms are easily split part. Uranium generates the heat in nuclear power reactors, and produces the fissile material for nuclear weapons. Deposits of uranium are found in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Namibia, Greenland, South Africa, United…

The basic principal behind the Light Water System is simple. Water is heated up using an artificial chain reaction in the core, Nuclear fission continues this reaction by releasing several million times more energy than any chemical reaction could (Kurzgesagt, video: 1/3). This heat converts the water into steam, turning a turbine, which continues to the generator and so forth. The Light Water Reactor became the most common thermal-neutron reactor because of its simplicity and low cost.…

In 1896, Henri Becquerel expanded the field of chemistry so nuclear changes would be included, after he discovered that uranium could disembogue radiation. Not very long after his discovery, Marie Curie began studying in the field of radiation, and completed most of the pioneering work on nuclear changes. Marie Curie discovered that radiation was related to the amount of radioactive element that is present, she also discovered that radiation was a property of atoms. Curie was the first woman to…

believe there are ethical issues that are involved. Nuclear power can be very environmental friendly, but like the accident in Japan, it could have many dangerous factors if accidents were to occur. For example, uranium is what fuels nuclear power plants, if an accident were to occur and the uranium were to leak out, people exposed to the radiation isotope could have short term and long term effects due to the exposure.…

In the book, Bomb by Steve Sheinkin, a common factor that has extreme stress and the race to build the atomic bomb before the Germans found a solution. Eventually, the Americans found a way and planned to bomb Hiroshima, a Japan city allied with the Nazis. After successfully being able to bomb the city, the creators of the bomb realized what they had done and what would happen in the future. Today, many forms of ‘bombs’ emerge in our generation, and the current outcome at our attempt at stopping…

Nuclear Bombs Have you ever thought about what will happen to this world if we do start bombing other countries, if the earth decides to start fighting back so it can survive from the destruction we are causing it? Well authors of dystopian literature have thought about it and wrote books on their ideas of what will happen to us in the future. In the story The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, the earth is destroyed and polluted, because the nations started sending nuclear bombs to each other…

nuclear power often falls under fire because of the many disadvantages it brings. After the uranium splits to generate heat, the resulting byproducts are radioactive, which means they need to be removed in a safe way. Even though power plants have undergone recycling efforts of this waste product in recent years, storing the byproduct can lead to contamination through various containment failures. Uranium is currently the sole raw material for generating nuclear energy. Nuclear power is a…