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Nuclear Technology

Nuclear Technology. By: Adam Curtis, Brandy Murovec , Macaulay Hall, Thi Nguyen, Zameer Arfeen. Little Boy. First nuclear weapon used in warfare Delivered by B-29 Enola Gay Dropped 1800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan Bombed on August 6, 1945 Explosive force is equal to 20 000 tons of TNT

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Nuclear Technology

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  1. Nuclear Technology By: Adam Curtis, Brandy Murovec, Macaulay Hall, Thi Nguyen, ZameerArfeen

  2. Little Boy • First nuclear weapon used in warfare • Delivered by B-29 Enola Gay • Dropped 1800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan • Bombed on August 6, 1945 • Explosive force is equal to 20 000 tons of TNT • Weighs 9000 pounds

  3. Fat Man • Bomb dropped 1800 feet over Nagasaki • Weighs 10 000 pounds • Explosive force equivalent to 20 000 tons of TNT

  4. Destruction • Little boy made a 8.5 Km radius of destruction on Hiroshima

  5. Gun Triggered Fission Bombs • 1. The explosives fire and propel the bullet down the barrel • 2. The bullet strikes the sphere and generator, initiating the fission react • 3. The fission reaction begins • 4. The bomb explodes

  6. Nuclear Fission • Reaction in which large nuclei break apart into smaller nuclei releasing energy • Bombs break plutonium nuclei apart, TNT explodes within the bomb compressing plutonium to dense state, this causes a chain reaction

  7. Radioactive Materials • Examples of radioactive materials are uranium and plutonium • These elements are very unstable because there atoms will fall apart at the slightest nudge • This releases unneeded energy and extra neutrons

  8. Critical Mass • When TNT explodes it begins to compress the radioactive material into a very dense state • Critical mass starts the chain reaction

  9. HYDROGEN BOMB • Triggered by an atomic bomb • “Coke Metaphor” squeezing an un-open can of Coke into a little ball without spilling ANY COKE!

  10. Ontario nuclear power plants • Pickering • Darlington

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