Hanford Site

Introduction World War II is heating up. The United States is now involved. The President needs to find a way to end the war as fast as possible. During this time, suspicions are high that Germany is developing some sort of “super weapon” – possibly using nuclear/atomic energy. Already, German scientists had discovered the technique of splitting uranium atoms – called nuclear fission – by the bombardment of these atoms using neutrons, splitting them apart into rare isotopes, the most…

The Atomic Age began at 3:25 p.m. on Dec. 2, 1942. It began in secret, on a squash court under the west stands of old Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. (Allison 30) Two and a half years later, on August 6, 1945, an American B-26 bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. (Grossman) On August 15th, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito surrendered. World War II was finally over. Without Japan’s final…

machine, but a pair of facilities with identical-twin designs, one located in Livingston, Louisiana and the other Hanford, Washington. By putting almost 2,000 miles between the two instruments, physicists can discriminate between local jiggling, which will only be felt by one detector, and authentic cosmic gravitational waves, which should be felt by both. ligo-Aerial5 LIGO's Hanford, Washington,…

INTRODUCTION In the world 17% of the total electrical energy is generated by nuclear energy, but with the creation of nuclear energy produced many concerns for the surrounding environment. Nuclear waste is produced in different forms with different chemical and physical properties. This waste may be: • In the form of gas emitted from radioactive materials • In the form of liquid excreted from many research fields • In the form of solid ranging from glassware of hospitals and contaminated trash…

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, HOW CLOSE ARE WE? PHSCS 222 Collective Paper November 23, 1999 #123 #272 #666 #895 The Detection of Gravitational Waves, How Close Are We? Since the realization that the general theory of relativity predicts gravitational waves, there have been attempts to actually detect these waves. Indirect observations have been made that support their existence but no direct measurement. This paper gives a brief explanation of gravitational waves and discusses the…