A graphite bomb is intended to be a non-lethal weapon used to disable an electrical grid. The bomb works by spreading a dense cloud of extremely fine,...
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source monitoring tool Nuclear graphite, synthetic graphite used as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors Graphite bomb, a weapon for disabling electrical...
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Manhattan Project (redirect from United States atomic bomb project)
Laboratory in the University of Chicago, the project designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor and the production reactors at the Hanford Site, in which uranium...
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RBMK (redirect from Light water graphite-moderated reactor)
moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union...
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The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile...
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Little Boy (redirect from Hiroshima bomb)
Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it...
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Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project. Its development...
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Fat Man (redirect from Nagasaki nuclear bomb)
Group at Los Alamos on the newly reactor-produced plutonium from the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge and the B Reactor at the Hanford site showed that...
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Trinity (nuclear test) (redirect from First atomic bomb)
test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on...
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Chicago Pile-1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
order-of-magnitude uncertainties about the size of a hypothetical bomb. The successful use of graphite as a moderator paved the way for progress in the Allied effort...
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in 1999, including the controversial use of cluster bombs, depleted uranium, and graphite bombs, some of which are claimed to be in violation of international...
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aerial vehicle LAH (Light Armed Helicopter) exploratory development Graphite bomb Radar for land systems KF-21 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA)...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (redirect from Father of the atomic bomb)
Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons...
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isotope separation in making a bomb. Instead, Plutonium-239 could be used, which could be produced in a uranium-graphite pile through the absorption of...
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Neutron moderator (section Non-graphite moderators)
most commonly used moderator (roughly 75% of the world's reactors). Solid graphite (20% of reactors) and heavy water (5% of reactors) are the main alternatives...
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Operation Outward (category World War II strategic bombing of Germany)
flying bombs and for the Normandy landings. The last balloons were launched on 4 September 1944. Fu-Go balloon bomb Fire balloon Graphite bomb Project...
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German nuclear program during World War II (redirect from Hitler and the atomic bomb)
Norwegian heavy water production and destroyed stocks of heavy water by 1943. Graphite (carbon) as an alternative was not considered, because the neutron absorption...
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Nuclear fission (section Fission bombs)
consisted of a uranium-graphite lattice, consisting of 288 cans, each containing 60 pounds of uranium oxide, surrounded by graphite bricks. Fermi's goal...
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water and graphite were the prime candidates for moderating neutron energy. When Nazi Germany investigated the production of an atomic bomb, a range of...
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Project Y (section Bomb design concepts)
during World War II. Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs. Robert Oppenheimer was its first director, serving from 1943 to December...
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carbon, in the form of graphite. He felt he would need about 50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons) (50.8 metric ton) of graphite and 5 tonnes (4.9 long...
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History of nuclear weapons (redirect from Atomic bomb project)
identification and mitigation of a key graphite impurity (boron) through a joint collaboration with graphite suppliers. The beginning of the American...
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Windscale Piles (category Graphite moderated reactors)
The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland (now known as Sellafield site,...
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Wigner effect. The effect is of most concern in neutron moderators, such as graphite, intended to reduce the speed of fast neutrons, thereby turning them into...
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Cumbria). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. Windscale...
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self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. He was on hand when the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee went critical in 1943, and when the B Reactor...
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V-2 rocket (redirect from V-2 flying bomb)
was guided by four external rudders on the tail fins, and four internal graphite vanes in the jet stream at the exit of the motor. These 8 control surfaces...
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B Reactor (category Graphite moderated reactors)
weapon-grade material. The B reactor was fueled with metallic natural uranium, graphite moderated, and water-cooled. It has been designated a U.S. National Historic...
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moderators such as ultra-pure graphite or beryllium, heavy water is by far the best. The Manhattan Project ultimately used graphite moderated reactors to produce...
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conductive graphite layer. The graphite layer as a natural refractory material would prevent the concrete above from melting. This graphite cooling plate...
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