This .
complements the uranium fission process. With the continually decreasing supply of coal .
and oil to power our nation, we need a substitute to complement our energy needs and .
right now the best replacement is that of nuclear energy. At the moment there are one .
hundred and ten nuclear power plants in the United States and they produce one-fifth of .
the nations electricity. Nuclear energy has been proven to be the cheapest, safest, cleanest .
and probably the most efficient source of energy. Nuclear power plants do not use as .
much fuel as the plants burning coal and oil. One ton of uranium produces more energy .
than several million tons of coal, and plutonium can produce much more energy than .
uranium. Also the burning of coal and oil pollute our air and the last thing we need is more .
pollution to worsen the greenhouse effect. Nuclear power plants cannot contaminate the .
environment because they do not release any type of pollution. Plutonium can also be .
recycled by using a enrichment process. This will produce even more energy. Coal and oil .
can not be recycled. What is left by their uses is what has been contaminating our .
atmosphere since the 1800's. You might ask how exactly is plutonium converted into an .
energy source? Well it is obviously quite complicated to explain. Basically, power comes.
from the fission process of an atom of the element and produces over ten million times the .
energy produced by an atom of carbon from coal. One kilogram of plutonium consumed .
for three years in a reactor can produce heat to give ten million kilowatt-hours of .
electricity. This amount is enough to power over one-thousand Australian households.
Presented with this information, it is only common sense that we should not depend upon .
fossil fuels to take us into the 21st century. It is obvious that our future lies in the hands of .
nuclear reactors and the use of plutonium.
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The second major use for plutonium is for space exploration with its ability to .
, the element plutonium.... Plutonium can be very advantageous for the United States. ... Plutonium 239 can be used to power nuclear reactors. ... (ref. 2) Plutonium can also be recycled by using a enrichment process. ... (ref. 2) There are basically three ways plutonium can hurt humans. ...
, the element plutonium.... Plutonium can be very advantageous for the United States. ... Plutonium 239 can be used to power nuclear reactors. ... (ref. 2) Plutonium can also be recycled by using a enrichment process. ... (ref. 2) There are basically three ways plutonium can hurt humans. ...
, the element plutonium.... Plutonium can be very advantageous for the United States. ... Plutonium 239 can be used to power nuclear reactors. ... (ref. 2) Plutonium can also be recycled by using a enrichment process. ... (ref. 2) There are basically three ways plutonium can hurt humans. ...
It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class. ... Robert Oppenheimer (Wood 2). ... Another type of atomic bomb was also constructed using the synthetic element plutonium. ... These reactors manufactured plutonium by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons. ... The fissionable material used in the Nagasaki bomb was plutonium 239. ...
(Outlaw 2) At the time, Uranium-235 was hard to extract. ... "(2) Scientists at Columbia University solved this difficult problem. A "massive enrichment laboratory/plant"(Outlaw 2) was built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ... "(2) After this process was completed, "Ernest O. ... "(2) Finally, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the Uranium-235 from the Uranium-238. ...
(Outlaw 2) At the time, Uranium-235 was hard to extract. ... "(2) Scientists at Columbia University solved this difficult problem. A "massive enrichment laboratory/plant"(Outlaw 2) was built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ... "(2) After this process was completed, "Ernest O. ... "(2) Finally, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the Uranium-235 from the Uranium-238. ...
This one a more powerful bomb, made from plutonium, nicknamed "Fat Man." ... Roosevelt, received a letter form Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, stating that his field of physics had opened up a new possibility for extremely powerful bombs, and that the Germans were currently in the process of trying to build one. ... Plutonium was also found to used in fission. ... To create the explosion there needed to be a sphere of high explosives around a small ball of plutonium, this creates the plutonium to implode inwards. This allowed the plutonium to reach supercritical mass, and create a cha...
On December 2, 1942 it made a controlled chain reaction. ... Since another isotope of plutonium was also fissionable, there was a fear that a chain reaction could start to soon when the pieces of plutonium where brought together, making it blow apart before it was consumed. ... A technique called implosion was used to make the plutonium bomb work. A noncritical shell of plutonium was surrounded by chemical high-explosives. ... Missouri on September 2. ...
., where U-238 was irradiated with neutrons and changed into plutonium. The plutonium was sent to Los Alamos. ... (Szasz 26) If the plutonium correctly fissioned, the tank would be vaporized. ... The plutonium bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on the city. ... id=pcZ8g7DjAzA&bids=6424&type=2&subid=0" >. ...
