Peak uranium

Perhaps one of the biggest breakthroughs in scientific history is the discovery of atoms, and later the splitting of atoms. This eventually lead to the use of atomic energy and its use to create a weapon far more destructive than any of those before it, the atomic bomb. This was a major breakthrough for the scientific and military community. In the 1940s, the United states created two atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changed the…

1 The Nature All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie (1867-1934), the Polish-French physicist chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. All that is beautiful, delightful and affable in this world, the silence of the night, the loveliness of the morning, the beauty of the day, the melody of the breeze, the fragrances of the flower, the precious…

nano-ceria particles was measured, using Tauc’s equation, the principle of which has been described in subsection 2.4 & 2.5 of ‘Materials and Methods’chapter. Results and discussion: The UV-Vis absorption spectrum of CeONP suspension showed a peak at around 270 nm (fig.3.1). Nature of the spectrum conformed well the characteristic UV-Vis spectrum of nano-ceria, prepared by other methods (Das et al., 2007)(Kim et al., 2012)(Deshpande et al.,…

“In 2014, nuclear power plants generated almost 20% of the U.S. electricity needs”. “Nuclear energy is used in more than 30 countries around the world and powered rovers on the Mars expedition”. Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a nonrenewable resource that must be maintained. It has multiple electrical purposes and continues to serve us with few problems. But, those few problems it does give us can be extremely dangerous and harmful to all living things. This article presents…

Radioisotopes are atoms that consist of unstable combination of neutrons and protons. All elements which have their atomic numbers greater than 83 are radioisotopes and have unstable, radioactive nuclei. They have at least one stable isotope and one unstable isotope. In order to gain stable conformation the nucleus of the atoms loses a neutron due to which radiation energy is given off and the atom is said to be in radioactive state. They are also called as radionuclides because they have more…

Atomic Energy Introduction: Scientists are able to address human cancer by using Atomic-energy. Atomic-energy or higher referred to as Nuclear-energy is the energy inside of the nucleus of an atom. Nuclear-energy is the type of energy that is regularly released during the process of nuclear-fission or nuclear-fusion and is typically used for electricity. Atoms are microscopic particles that make up every and each object inside the universe. There is gigantic energy inside the bonds that can…

In conducting this experiment, the hope was to identify if there was a relationship between distance from a radioactive source and its radioactivity. Within this radiation lab experiment, we put the following hypothesis to the test: If the distance from the source, in centimeters, is increased then the Ionizing Radiation does is expected to decrease because the radiation decreases as it gets farther away from the radiation emitter, due to the loss of energy from the radioactive particles as…

There are also 66,000 tons of steel needed the same amount used in the erection of the empire state building and 44 miles of piping needed these items create jobs in many different areas of manufacturing. Other jobs are also created in the mining of uranium that is found in many places around the world. According again to the Nuclear Energy Institute the security of these nuclear facility single handedly produces 9000 jobs a year across the…

Background and Information leading to the incident The meltdown at Three Mile Island is a combination of both mechanical failure and human error. Mechanical failure was first observed at the non–nuclear part of the plant where failure in the main feed water pumps prevented the supply of water to the steam generators further cutting the heat in the core reactor. Increasing heat in the turbine generator lead to turbine shut down causing increased pressure in the nuclear portion of the plant. With…

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a chemist and she was born in London England on July 25th, 1920. At just the age of 15 Rosalind Elsie Franklin decided she wanted to be a scientist. Receiving her education at several schools which also includes North London Collegiate School which she excelled in science. She was best known for the role she played in the the discovery of the structure of DNA, also her pioneering the use of X-ray diffraction. Franklin enrolled at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1938…