Techno-Science.net on MSN1d
Why are nuclear weapons so difficult and dangerous to produce? 💥
July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...
The Oak Ridger on MSN2d
The story of Col. Kenneth Nichols continues with Y-12, E.O. Lawrence, and the Calutron Girls
Barbara Scollin and D. Ray Smith bring the 12th part of her story on Kenneth D. Nichols. We learn of the nail-biting effort ...
C&EN6y
Plutonium-238 Production for Space Exploration
Nuclear reactions show the irradiation of uranium-235 at the Savannah River Site. This produced the intermediate neptunium-237, which was then transformed into plutonium-238. Pu-238 fueled the first ...
PBS3mon
Dangerous Water
It either must be enriched—made more concentrated in a rare form of uranium (U-235)—or converted into plutonium (Pu-239). Heavy water can play a role in breeding weapons-grade plutonium from ...
Popular Mechanics6d
Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer ...