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Positive Effects of the Manhattan Project The United States is estimated to spend between six hundred and twenty billion dollars to six hundred and sixty one billion dollars on nuclear weapons over the next decade (PloughShares). The start of nuclear weaponry began when the test bomb, Gadget, was detonated on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Manhattan Project was a secret operation which the United States perfected the atomic bomb. Many people did not know about the Manhattan…

fission. Fission occurs when radioactive elements split into smaller elements with intermediate mass. In the case of uranium-235, with each decay process, a neutron is released (Sarquis). With these extra neutrons, a new reaction can take place with another uranium-235 atom and continue as such, causing a chain reaction. This process releases a lot of energy - 215 MeV, to be exact (“Uranium-235 Fission”) - and this energy can be harnessed to produce heat, nuclear reactors use this. A nuclear…

The “core” of the nuclear reactor houses uranium, and is where nuclear fission takes place (“How Nuclear Power Works”). Nuclear fission is when an atom is split apart, and it creates massive amounts of energy. This energy is what heats the water and turns the turbine. Uranium is found in its natural state in the earth’s crust, where it is mined. Many arguments against nuclear power claim that the energy is…

Nuclear energy should not be a resource after what happened in Japan on 11 march 2011. That day a Nuclear power plantation has been destroyed by an earthquake in Japan. It causes radiation all around Japan and many people died. It doesn't matter if the disaster happened on Japan just because Japan is known for tsunami, earthquake, storm surge, and floods.This global warming situation is out of control for everybody so this can happen anywhere and if any natural causes hit any nuclear power plant…

to mind when you saw this, was… What exactly is the Manhattan project? Well the Manhattan project dates all the way back in 1938, when many people feared that Hitler would build an atomic bomb after word spread that German scientist had split the uranium atom (fission). However, one of Hitler’s mistakes was his persecution of Jewish scientists. This persecution resulted in numerous scientists seeking asylum in the United States. One such scientist was Albert Einstein. Einstein, abandoning his…

Perhaps one of the biggest breakthroughs in scientific history is the discovery of atoms, and later the splitting of atoms. This eventually lead to the use of atomic energy and its use to create a weapon far more destructive than any of those before it, the atomic bomb. This was a major breakthrough for the scientific and military community. In the 1940s, the United states created two atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changed the…

1 The Nature All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie (1867-1934), the Polish-French physicist chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. All that is beautiful, delightful and affable in this world, the silence of the night, the loveliness of the morning, the beauty of the day, the melody of the breeze, the fragrances of the flower, the precious…

Cerium is a rare earth element of the lanthanide series (atomic no. = 57– 71) of the periodic table. Among the various rare earth metals, cerium granted a hugeattention towards scientific community due to its catalytic antioxidant property. Usually, antioxidants protect cells from oxidative damage, mediated by ‘reactive oxygen species’ (ROS), which include free radicals such as superoxide anion (O2•-), hydroxyl radical (•OH), singlet oxygen (1O2) and non-free radical species like hydrogen…

“In 2014, nuclear power plants generated almost 20% of the U.S. electricity needs”. “Nuclear energy is used in more than 30 countries around the world and powered rovers on the Mars expedition”. Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a nonrenewable resource that must be maintained. It has multiple electrical purposes and continues to serve us with few problems. But, those few problems it does give us can be extremely dangerous and harmful to all living things. This article presents…

Radioisotopes are atoms that consist of unstable combination of neutrons and protons. All elements which have their atomic numbers greater than 83 are radioisotopes and have unstable, radioactive nuclei. They have at least one stable isotope and one unstable isotope. In order to gain stable conformation the nucleus of the atoms loses a neutron due to which radiation energy is given off and the atom is said to be in radioactive state. They are also called as radionuclides because they have more…