- Nuclear fission occurs when an atom is split in two and can not contain itself anymore so it explodes, releasing an enormous amount of energy and creating a nuclear explosion. Comes from uranium, which is nonrenewable. 1 in 5 houses in the U.S. are electrically powered by nuclear energy. Uranium is the fuel most widley used to produce Nuclear energy and it is easier to split the atoms that way. This is also the most commonly found element found in rocks all over the world. The most specific type of uranium used to produce this specific type of energy is U-235.
- the use of chemotherapy is widely used to help cancer patients.Chemotherapy is used to kill cancer cells with or using radiation which is energy that is given off of nuclei. These is proof of people who have to use this energy there are people who are alive today because of the nuclear energy that we use to basically cure the cancer. Also this can ease cancer symptoms such as shrinking tumors that are causing soemwhat pressure or pain.
- Chemotherapy in some cases there's a very little chance it can be the only treatment used for a specific purpose such as an explosion with high radiation as a nuclear bomb attack, But in most cases you will half to go along the lines of radiation therapy, surgery, or biological therapy. All depending on the type of cancer cells you have for which some drugs are used for many cancer cells or just two types of cells.
- Little boy was the name given to the bomb dropped in Hiroshima, Japan. It was composed of uranium and plutonium, and brought together to cause a huge mass. To start the chain reaction, it needs enough fissionable material. It starts when the neutrons strike the heavy uranium and plutonium nucleus making it split and causing great amount of energy.
- Weight: 10,800 lbs
- Length: 10 ft 8 in.; Diameter: 60 in.
- Fuel: Highly enriched plutonium 239
- Plutonium Fuel: approx. 13.6 lbs; approx. size of a softball
- Plutonium core surrounded by 5,300 lbs of high explosives; plutonium core reduced to size of tennis ball
- Bomb Initiator: Beryllium - Polonium
- All components of Fat Man ferried to Tinian Island aboard B-29's of the 509th CG
- Efficiency of weapon: 10 times that of Little Boy
- Approx 1.176 Kilograms of plutonium converted to energy
- Explosive force: 21,000 tons of TNT equivalent
- Delivery: B-29 Bockscar piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney
