convenient and efficient to use a spreadsheet such as Excel (or the Openoffice equivalent) to perform the calculations. 5. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. If 235 U is 0.72% abundant today‚ how abundant 92 was it when the Earth formed?. Note: Uranium isotope half lives and present day abundances: 234 2.455×105 y 235 7.038×108 y 238 4.468×109 y 0.006% 0.72% 99.27% 1
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attention right away. “Poisoning the earth can be difficult because the earth is always trying to cleanse and renew itself.” A sense of sarcasm is noticed in the authors tone as she is stating that even though we have al these toxic chemicals like uranium-238 which is takes million of years to dipsose‚ and nuclear power plants that create hundreds of plutonium each ear. It is still not enough for the earth to be polluted is ironic. Next she transitions into a step-by-step guide on different ways
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date igneous rocks. These radioactive isotopes have a distinctive number of atoms that present themselves unstable. These atoms will inevitably decay through a series of evolutions. We will take Uranium as example. Uranium will ultimately decay into the stable element lead. The father element being the Uranium and the end result creating the daughter element lead. Radioisotope dating is used to date igneous rocks that have cooled from their molten stage. it
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The chemical reaction that creates nuclear power is known as nuclear fission. When uranium is blasted with fast-moving atoms known as neutrinos‚ they become unstable and split‚ releasing more fast-moving neutrinos and energy in the form of radiation (Redd). When nuclear fission occurs‚ there are byproducts of the fuel known as fission products
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The World War II period brought new technologies and weapons of mass destruction that created tensions between countries and competition for a nuclear arms race well into the 20th century. While many countries‚ notably Germany‚ the Soviet Union‚ and USA attempted to develop technology leading to weapons of mass destruction in the World War II period‚ the US was the only country that successfully built an atomic bomb before the end of the war. There was significant research conducted by scientists
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Business Ethics Case Review Name: Chad Clinton Case Name: Exposing Workers to Plutonium Case Textbook Pages: 172-173 Facts: A U.S. Government owned uranium plant exposed several thousand workers to plutonium and other radioactive materials and dumped radioactive contaminants into landfills during a period of several decades. Some of the plants contaminants eventually found its way into wildlife areas and private water wells. The plant‚ located in Paducah‚ Kentucky kept records
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M11/4/PHYSI/SP2/ENG/TZ1/XX 22116511 PHYSICS STANDARD LEVEL PAPER 2 Candidate session number 0 0 Wednesday 11 May 2011 (afternoon) Examination code 2 1 hour 15 minutes 2 1 1 – 6 5 1 1 INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES • • • • • Write your session number in the boxes above. Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. Section A: answer all questions. Section B: answer one questions. Write your answers in the boxes provided
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Only about 0.7% of uranium consists of the isotope U-235‚ the fuel source of nuclear reactors‚ but because the cooling process utilized by LWRs absorbs a significant number neutrons required for fission‚ nuclear fuel must be enriched to contain between 3% and 5% U-235. The
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What is the Manhattan Project? And how did it affect the world? The Manhattan Project was a secret project that was kept from public knowledge and even the vice president didn’t even know about the project until the completion of the project was nearly done. The Manhattan Project has hundreds of scientists and was based out of numerous locations spread through out the country and there were many testing sights but the most common testing sight was the one that was located in a desert in New Mexico
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discovered another state of matter. Sort of like liquid or gas or solid states. In January 1933 after the Nazi regime in Germany‚ grab‚ Einstein move to university of Princeton and 1940 he became U.S. citizen. In 1939‚ he was informed that its uranium nuclear fission chain reaction found in the Hungarian physicist L. Szilard‚ driven by a letter to President Roosevelt‚ the proposed development of the atomic bomb‚
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