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Rutherford’s Transmutation of Nitrogen

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1 Rutherford’s Transmutation of Nitrogen
Ernest Rutherford Disintegration Chamber

2 Cyclotron

3 Nuclear Binding Energies

4 Fission Lise Meitner Otto Hanh Otto Frisch

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6 Critical Mass

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

8 Uranium Enrichment 0.7% 235U 238UF6 vs. 235UF6 Uranium Hexafluoride
Gas Storage Cylinder 238UF6 vs. 235UF6 Gaseous Diffusion Oakridge, TN

9 Fission Bomb

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

11 Fat Man Plutonium Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki 21 kiloTons

12 Fusion - Naturally Occurring
11H H H e 11H H He 32He He He H 32He H He e

13 Fusion Bomb Edward Teller Stanislaw Ulam

14 Mike November 1, 1952 Liquid Deuterium Bomb 10 – 12 MegaTons Enewetak Atoll

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16 Teller – Ulam Design Castle Bravo March 1, 1954 Solid LiD 15 MegaTons Bikini Atoll

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18 Tsar Bomba October 30, 1961 Lead Tamper 50 MegaTons Severny Island

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