Nuclear fusion

Building a fusion nuclear power plant is not an impossible dream. After the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, more countries and experts have shifted their focus to conduct more research on fusion. If a fusion power plant is far more environmentally friendly compared to a conventional fission power plant, more funding should be given to the research and development of fusion technology. By examining the pros and cons of fission and fusion, fusion is superior to…

Objective-We are trying to figure out two things while doing this experiment. First thing is how strong is the radiation based on the distance from the source and if thickness of the material effects how much radiation gets through. Introduction-One thing to know about this experiment is Isotopes.Isotopes of an element are different versions with same number of neutrons but different number of neutrons. Also these isotopes can be unstable which means they decay overtime releasing radiation.…

element is equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT (“How Do Nuclear Weapons Work?”). The other material that is available to use is Plutonium-239. The Nagasaki bomb used this type of material which generated a destructive energy equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT. Those two materials was selected because both of them have an unstable isotope which make them have a high radioactivity level.…

energy production is nuclear power, the use of exothermic nuclear processes to generate useful heat and energy. Soon after the discovery in the early 20th century that radioactive elements released an immense amount of energy the pursuit to harness nuclear energy began. Ways of harnessing this energy at the time were, however, impractical due to the short half-lives. This changed in the late 1930s with the discovery of nuclear fission, a process that entails either a nuclear reaction or…

changed chemically or physically in labs, alchemists pursued this dream to no advantage. Although it is not possible to change ordinary metals to gold through chemical reactions, physical reactions, radioactive decay, or nuclear fission, it is possible to change them through nuclear fusion. Common metal such as copper cannot go through physical reactions to turn into gold because the substance would only change phase. A physical reaction is the rearrangement of molecules…

Nuclear Energy Nuclear Energy Nuclear Power Plants: Nuclear Power Plants are facilities which generate electricity through the use of nuclear reactions. It is referred to as a thermal power station because it creates a nuclear reaction, in which a lot of heat and energy is created. Due to the production of heat, the plan creates a lot of steam which is used like in coal or gas-fired power stations to drive turbine generators to generate electricity. Nuclear Reactions The are two nuclear…

grave matter that has been threatening our world since Enrico Fermi successfully created the first nuclear reactor, which later on made way for the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Currently, nine countries are in possession of nuclear weapons. This is enough nuclear capability to wipe out the human race completely. This is what is worrisome. During the Cold War, we saw a considerable increase of nuclear armament in the United States and Russia. A most welcomed change occurred in 1987 when American…

Nuclear energy has the potential to be the most deadly killer our world has ever seen, but if used properly, our nation can benefit greatly from it. The idea of harnessing the power of nuclear reactions has been around for many years, however, the United States has not seemed to capitalize on its usefulness yet. There are currently only 62 active nuclear power plants with 100 reactors in 31 states. These reactors only provide about 20 percent of all energy used in the United States (“How Many…

we can smoothly transition to the topic of nuclear energy. This energy put simply is the energy holding an atom together: the nucleus, electrons, etc. (What is Nuclear?). This energy is so strong that it’s even called “the greatest force in nature” (How Nuclear Power Works). The fascinating science of nuclear energy can be shown to have a tremendous environmental factor. The science behind the atom…

Otto Hahn was a German chemist who discovered fission, fission is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts. When Hahn discovered nuclear fission he unintentionally discovered how to create an atomic bomb. Hahn discovered nuclear fission by having a speed neutron hit a uranium atom, the uranium atom spit. When the speeding neutron hit the nucleus of the uranium atom the atom stretched until it split. Before this, Niels Bohr had a theory that a nucleus must be “like…