Rutherford’s Transmutation of Nitrogen Ernest RutherfordDisintegration Chamber.

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Rutherford’s Transmutation of Nitrogen

Ernest Rutherford Disintegration Chamber

Cyclotron

Nuclear Binding Energies

Fission

Critical Mass

Enrico Fermi

Chicago Pile 1Stagg Field, University of Chicago

Uranium PelletsGraphite BricksCadmium Coated Rods

Uranium Enrichment0.7% 235U

Uranium Hexafluoride

Gas Storage Cylinder

Oakridge, TNGaseous Diffusion

238UF6 vs. 235UF6

Fission Bomb

Little-BoyUranium BombDropped on Hiroshima13 – 18 kiloTons of TNT

Fat ManPlutonium BombDropped on Nagasaki21 kiloTons

Fusion - Naturally Occurring

11H + 1

1H 21H + 0

1e

11H + 2

1H 32He

32He + 3

2He 42He + 2 1

1H

32He + 1

1H 42He + 0

1e

Fusion BombMikeLiquid Deuterium BombEnewetak Atoll10 – 12 MegaTons

Teller – Ulam Design