Plutonium

for the United States to be the first with the atomic bomb began with this knowledge. With the help of several scientists the United States succeeded of building the atomic bomb first. Two atomic bombs were used a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. Along with the many deaths were six stages of A-bomb illness which includes acute stages, atomic bomb…

The transition into the atomic age began in the early 1900s, when scientists began researching the atom. In 1938 they discovered something called fission, the process of splitting an atom. Due to the second world war breaking out the research of atoms eventually turned to the research of weapons. A few of the leading countries in the race for an atomic weapon were Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union. After several years of research the U.S. developed and tested the first atomic bomb…

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…

On August 6th and 9th, 1945, about 80,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers were brutally killed in an instant by two American-made atomic bombs. Years of horrendous fallout would then follow in the wake of two of the worst man-made disasters of all time. This was the work of the many people who contributed to the Manhattan Project, which Julius Oppenheimer was chiefly involved. As the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, Julius was instrumental in the development of the world’s…

World War II began on September 1, 1939. At approximately this time, American physicists discovered that splitting atoms can cause a powerful explosion. Though the atomic bomb was not existent until later in the war, well respected, American physicists believed atomic bombs could be produced. They also believed that the bombs could demolish a large city with one, single blast. As the war progressed, rivalries grew more intense and the first atomic bomb was developed. Albert Einstein was one of…

cosmic waves react, was the head scientist of the Chicago campus study team (Groves xvi). He stated that the purpose of the research was to build understanding required to design and construct and operate a plant for the transformation of uranium to plutonium. Once Roosevelt came to the conclusion that this weapon had to be created before Hitler’s forces beat him to it, he was the one that gave the project much needed funding and support to continue. Luckily, FDR did not have to use it against…

atomic bomb. On November 6th, 1941, Compton introduced a report on the military uses of atomic energy with the help of physicist, Ernest O. Lawrence. His presentation set forth many possibilities. Lawrence had told Compton about the unearthing of plutonium. This discovery had changed the probability for atomic energy. The commencement of the Manhattan Project in the U.S. was predominantly because…

problem using the weapon as soon as it was created. Finally, in 1942 the Manhattan Engineer District was created (Manhattan Project, nd). On December 28, 1942, President Roosevelt approved the Manhattan project to create full-scale “gaseous diffusion, plutonium, and electromagnetic plants (US DOE, nd.).” As the atomic bomb was on the edge of successful creation in 1945, the bomb was becoming one of the US’s most important elements in ending the war. Many strategists understood that the Japanese…

The Iran nuclear agreement has been debated in recent months as both good and bad. The good that is suppose to come from it, I believe, is minor and the derogatory results are immense. First of all, it puts some limits on Iran’s Nuclear Programs but allows them to continue to enrich uranium. The Iran agreement claims that it is a great victory that Iran would have to reduce their stockpile of uranium by 98 percent but they can sell this enriched uranium to their neighbors and receive natural…

One of the largest environmental disasters in world history happened on March 11, 2011. The site was the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake was experienced off the northeastern coast of Japan, and this triggered tsunamis that affected shorelines within minutes. Dozens of villages alongside 200 miles of coastline were substantially destroyed. Waves measuring more than 40 feet struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant, located only 150 miles from Tokyo. The…