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Rutherford’s Transmutation of Nitrogen Ernest RutherfordDisintegration Chamber

Cyclotron

Nuclear Binding Energies

Fission

Critical Mass

Enrico Fermi Chicago Pile 1 Stagg Field, University of Chicago Uranium Pellets Graphite Bricks Cadmium Coated Rods

Uranium Enrichment 0.7% 235 U Uranium Hexafluoride Gas Storage Cylinder Oakridge, TN Gaseous Diffusion 238 UF 6 vs. 235 UF 6

Fission Bomb

Little-Boy Uranium Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima 13 – 18 kiloTons of TNT

Fat Man Plutonium Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki 21 kiloTons

Fusion - Naturally Occurring 1 1 H H 2 1 H e 1 1 H H 3 2 He 3 2 He He 4 2 He H 3 2 He H 4 2 He e

Fusion Bomb Mike Liquid Deuterium Bomb Enewetak Atoll 10 – 12 MegaTons

Teller – Ulam Design