Sentence examples for plutonium fission from inspiring English sources

The Marines arrived in Nagasaki in September, six weeks after the 22-kiloton plutonium fission bomb detonated over Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing 40,000 and devastating a 1.8-square-mile area.

The operation of Nuclear Power Plants and atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons performed in the past, together with production, transport and reprocessing of nuclear fuel, lead to the release into the environment of a wide range of radioactive nuclides, such as uranium, plutonium, fission and activation products.

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment soil and structures that were near the blast laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

Three days later, a second nuclear weapon -- this time a more powerful plutonium fission bomb -- was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

A plutonium fission event produces, on average, 2.9 neutrons, most of which are consumed in the production of more fission, until fission stops and the remaining uncaptured neutrons escape.

Most of the fluorination residues that consist of non-volatile fluorides of uranium, plutonium, and fission products are converted to oxides by pyrohydrolysis at 600 800 °C.

It's created when uranium and plutonium undergo fission in a reactor or during the explosion of a nuclear weapon.

As the date for the Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Overlord) drew near in early 1944, Groves considered that risk was sufficient to send an officer to brief the Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the possible use of radioactive poisons, particularly plutonium and fission products that might be created in their nuclear reactors.

Plutonium also could fission and thus was another route to the atomic bomb.

Victor Weisskopf put it thus: In 1943 development efforts were directed to a plutonium gun-type fission weapon called "Thin Man".

Unknown to workers, the powder contained dangerous substances left over from the plutonium-making process – fission byproducts such as technetium-99 and heavy metals known as "transuranics": neptunium and plutonium.