Essays Tagged: "Plutonium"

Nucelar Energy

able to split other nuclei. A fission reactor consists basically of (1) a fuel, usually uranium or plutonium, enclosed in shielding; (2) a moderator--a substance such as graphite, beryllium, or heavy ...

(1 pages) 45 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Apocalypse at the Nuclear Plant

is car next to the multitude of his coworkers. His day began just like the others. If there was any plutonium to be expected, he was damn sure he would be the one to inspect it. He walked past George ... rvis lead Pete over to the main testing area. 'We discovered this late last night. Seems one of the plutonium pieces is...,' he paused with a gulp, 'changing.''Changing?!?!''You better believe it beca ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Plutonium

PlutoniumPlutonium is a radioactive metallic element. Although it is occasionally found in nature, m ... m is a radioactive metallic element. Although it is occasionally found in nature, mostly all of our plutonium is produced artificially in a lab. The official chemical symbol for plutonium is Pu, comin ... bol for plutonium is Pu, coming from its first and third letters. Its atomic number is ninety-four. Plutonium is able to maintain its solid state until very high temperatures, melting at six hundred a ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Glenn Seaborg

covery and categorization of many radioactive isotopes, also the discovery of many elements such as:plutonium(1940)americium(1944)curium(1944)berkelium(1949)californium(1950)einsteinium(1952)fermium(1 ...

(1 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Manhattan Project

delt i 3 faser, to store anlæg skulle i samarbejde med private virksomheder producere uran og plutonium. Et tredje laboratorium skulle udvikle atombomben ud fra de ma-terialer som de to anl&aeli ... kyldtes flere ting, blandt andet var det et meget stort projekt at oparbejde så meget uran og plutonium at det var nok til en a-bombe. Det andet var det teoretiske, der skulle mange beregninger ...

(9 pages) 45 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Nuclear Weapons.

r weapon, the atom bomb, and uses the energy released when nuclei of heavy elements like uranium or plutonium, split apart. A second even more powerful type of nuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, and u ... two months, almost twice as many were dead. Three days after the first explosion, a bomb containing plutonium was dropped on Nagasaki. Thirty thousand people died in the seconds following the explosio ...

(5 pages) 71 0 3.4 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay is about the element Plutonium. It describes the history, the uses-past and future, all isotopes of this material, apperance, electron configuration, and the half life.

Plutonium is a radioactive, silvery metal that yellows when exposed to oxygen. It is represented on ... ows when exposed to oxygen. It is represented on the Periodic Table of Elements by the symbol "Pu". Plutonium is one of the transuranium elements in the actinide series of the Periodic Table. Its atom ... of the transuranium elements in the actinide series of the Periodic Table. Its atomic number is 94. Plutonium has an atomic mass of 244 and a density of 298K. Pu melts at 914 degrees Kelvin. Its valen ...

(2 pages) 168 9 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

A paragraph about Louis Slotin and his life.

blue light. Before an explosion could happen, Slotin lunged forward and separated the two pieces of plutonium with his bare hands. He took the full force of the nuclear detonation in his gut. The leth ...

(1 pages) 23 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Book report about the atomic bomb with the history and some facts about the bomb

Atomic BombAtomic Bomb, powerful explosive nuclear weapon fueled by the splitting uranium or plutonium in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by an atomic bomb is equal to 2 ... The strength of the explosion created by an atomic bomb is equal to 22000 tons of tnt, Usually the plutonium or uranium in a bomb is separated into parts so that an explosion or critical mass is not ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Bioremdiation of Toxic Wastes

most prevalent metallic substances in Department of Energy toxic waste are chromium, lead, mercury, plutonium, uranium, cesium, strontium, and technetium. The last five are highly radioactive [NABIR 9 ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Atomic Bomb

uclear weapon fueled by the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of specific isotopes of uranium or plutonium in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by an atomic bomb is on the ord ... losion that would be created by thousands of tons of TNT An atomic bomb must provide enough mass of plutonium or uranium to reach critical mass, the mass at which the nuclear reactions going on inside ...

(5 pages) 65 2 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Benefits and Dangers of nuclear energy

ade in a nuclear power plant like the diagram and photos below:Atomic Energy is made using uranium, plutonium, and many other elements, which are not easy to work with and mine.Advantages (Benefits) o ...

(5 pages) 131 0 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Nuclear Power

d. Nuclear power can come from the fission, the act or process of splitting into parts, of uranium, plutonium or thorium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium. One fifth of the world's electricity is ...

(2 pages) 63 0 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

This essay is about a Magical Eraser. Great for a philisophical essay, or if you have one of "Thoes Teachers" That are contemplating the universe all the time.

n.t. cancer. The second was Phy, caused by radiation, sent to earth from the sun. It turns out that Plutonium and Uranium were only reacting with the photons bonded to the UV rays being sent from the ...

(3 pages) 22 0 3.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Evil and its Motivating Forces In Shakespeare's Macbeth

the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man." Without doubt, the evil that waits in t ...

(6 pages) 19 0 0.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Comparing Nuclear Fusion vs. Nuclear Fission

Fission requires an element that can be easily split in a particle accelerator, such as uranium or plutonium. Fusion, on the other hand, uses isotopes of hydrogen atoms, specifically deuterium and tr ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.3 Jun/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Atomic Bomb

33). During some basic research at Berkeley, Glenn Seaborg and Emilio Sergr? discovered that plutonium made an excellent source of fuel for an atomic explosion. (Plutonium is a by-product of a ... g and two feet tall (KUHN 508).Nagasaki was the second victim of the atomic age. The US dropped the plutonium bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. Fat Man was an implosion type fission bomb (BLOW 119). I ...

(3 pages) 37 0 4.1 Dec/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Uranium

of the periodic table, along with other elements such as thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, a ... sion plant for reconversion to uranium hexafluoride and subsequent re-enrichment. The reactor-grade plutonium can be blended with enriched uranium to produce a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel*, in a fuel fabri ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

the safety issues. Graphite reactors were built because they not only produce electricity but also plutonium that is used to build weapons. Third the people in Moscow responsible for the building of ...

(4 pages) 31 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Atomic Bomb

energy in a nuclear reaction called fission, or splitting, of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium and uranium. (Yanak, Cornelison) The Manhattan project was named after the Manhattan Engin ... n artillery gun. (Cohen; 45) The second bomb was created using an artificial heavy element known as plutonium. A reactor for this device was built in Chicago at the end of 1942. This was the prototype ...

(10 pages) 12 0 0.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II