Wednesday, September 14, 2011

How does nuclear fission work?

How does nuclear fission work?                                                                                                                

Summary- What exactly is nuclear fission? Well it’s not a very simple subject to explain but it is basically the beginning stage of an atomic explosion. What do we use nuclear fission for; we use it in nuclear reactors and atomic bombs. There was a scientist in 1972 that discovered in Oklo Gabon there was ore deposit that may have been the first nuclear fission explosion readings which were traced approximately 2 billion years ago. So nature looks like it already started nuclear reactors before we could even figure it out.                                                                                              

Critique- I think that it is interesting that nature was a step ahead of us with science. Nuclear fission sounds like a very similar process as antimatters process so we could possibly put nuclear fission and antimatter together to make a nuclimatter bomb or fission matter bomb in the next 100 years. What the cost of nuclear fission would be approximately 45 dollars per pound, I do not know if you need a license of some sort but you may need one since it’s a element used for bombs.

Impact- We shouldn’t get to crazy with nuclear warfare although we don’t use it but when or if we do we should not make bombs such as gamma ray bombs because not only its inhumane but dangerous to the whole earth.

Reference- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission

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