Which isotopes of plutonium can be used to make a nuclear weapon and can the Busher Light Water Reactor in Ira
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The Arak facility might produced enough plutonium for as many as three bombs every year. Their projected date for this type of operation is at least 2yrs off.  The two Bushehr reactors appear to be geared toward electicity output\n\nPlutonium containing high quantities of fissile material i.e. Pu-239 in the order of 90-95 %, is known as weapon-grade plutonium. Plutonium containing lower concentrations, in the range of 50-60 % is known as reactor-grade plutonium.
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fission reaction or fusion? chain reaction? what molecules? neutrons may be? Uranuim isotope? nuclear fuel?\ni can't help you.
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Pu 239 is mostly manmade. It is highly toxic and its half-life is 24,000 years.\nExposure to the reaction of a critical mass is not so good either.
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You will need to know the density of Plutonium at the specific temperature and phase you are talking about.\n\nDensity = mass / volume\n\nDepending on the units of the density given, you may have to do some conversion, then simply solve for mass.\n\nMass and weight are NOT the same thing, nor do they have the same units.  Mass has units of kilograms where as Weight has units of Newtons.\nIf you truely do want the "Weight" of the Plutonium, then you must multiply its mass by the acceleration due to gravity is experiences (~9.81 m/s^2 on the surface of Earth).\nw = mg\n\n\nThe density of solid Plutonium at standard conditions is 19816 kg/m^3 which equals 19.816 kg/Liter.\nSo 1 Liter of Plutonium under these conditions has a mass of 19.816 kg and a weight of 194.4 Newtons.
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235 Uranium + 1 neutron --> 140 Cesium + 93 Rubidium + 3 neutrons
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The half-lives will vary depending on the isotope.  Go to the library and look them up in "The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" in the reference section.
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I'll tell you and won't kill you.\n\nBut don't even think of trying this at home.\n\nThe ore (found in rocks, mines, mountains) contains a couple types (isotopes) of uranium, mainly  U-235 (the one for nuclear fuel) and U-238 (depleted uranium, for armor piercing rounds).\n\nThese have different weights, so you can use a centrifuge (same as the spinner that seperates blood cells from plasma based on weight) to seperate the lighter atoms of U-235 from the heavier U-238. Thus all the fuss about who may or may not be buying aluminum tubes in the middle east to make centrifuges.
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Im guessing it can be used for atomic bombs...... and atomic watches and otehr atomic powered devices.... would nuclear power be the same?
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taking plutonium away from the rest of the world
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none, the 2 different bombs you are trying to get at are usually called atomic and hydrogen bombs\n\natomic (that was dropped over Japan 1946) is uncontrolled splitting (fission) of uranium whereas in the nuclear power reactors this is done slowly -- the reaction is controlled.\n\nhydrogen bomb was never tested over human population (only atoll Bikini) is a synthesis (fusion) of hydrogen into helium. This reaction produces the energy from the Sun and it is still in a research mode here on earth to get this reaction under control.\nIt would be much more effective source of energy than the nuclear one.
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A piece of uranium or plutonium is put in water, and then the water begins to boil releasing a large ammount of of energy. That energy is collected. What`s left over from this reaction is known as nuclear waste.
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When taken in by mouth, plutonium is less poisonous (except for risk of causing cancer) than several common substances including caffeine, acetaminophen, some vitamins, pseudoephedrine, and any number of plants and fungi. It is perhaps somewhat more poisonous than pure ethanol, but less so than tobacco; and many illegal drugs. From a purely chemical standpoint, it is about as poisonous as lead and other heavy metals. Not surprisingly, it has a metallic taste.\n\n(view more by following the link below...)
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Nukes are awesome.  I don't know why they aren't used more often.  Much more efficient.
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location-USA\n\nPhysicist-Oppenheimer\n\nThe Germans had the right idea about how to create a plutonium weapon but failed to get an operable design for the heavy water reactor to convert U238 into Pu239.\n\nThe Manhattan project purified U235 in thousands of centrifuges in Kentucky and built a nuclear weapon that was first tested at the trinity site in white sands New Mexico with what is known as the shotgun design in which a sphere of Uranium with a piece missing is shot with the missing piece creating a complete hypercritical mass.
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Making Plutonium that is suitable for weapons use just requires you to take the fuel out of the reactor after only three months to extract the Plutonium before large amounts of the nasty isotopes of Plutonium which will make your bomb useless develop.  It isn't economical for power production to refuel every three months but if you want weapons you do what you gotta do.  It's pretty easy to make the Plutonium provided you have a nuclear reactor (but you must have the reactor before you can start).\n\nEnriching Uranium is a hard process, the biggest progress made has been the move from gas diffusion to centrifugal enrichment which makes the process less energy intensive but still very hard to do but it is still harder than making Plutonium.\n\nOf course making a bomb using Uranium is a lot easier than making one using Plutonium.
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1. a nuclear reaction\n2. helium\n3. 92U239\n4. cadmium\n5. plutonium\n6. involve changes in the nucleus\n7. americium and curium\n8. atomic weight\n9. energy\n10. nucleus\n11. moderator\n12. cadmium\n13. remains the same\n14. increases\n15. increases\n16. decreases\n17. remains the same\n18. decreases\n19. remains the same (if I'm not mistaken ... please check whether there is any beta particles released ... if there any, then the answer should be decreased)\n20. increases
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A nuclear power station in Iran is not bad. However the 'fuel' (enriched uranium or plutonium) can be used for composing an atomic bomb. The politicians are afraid for that. So do I.