Download - Going Nuclear: Our Nuclear Legacy
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
NUCLEAR STATES
FORMER NUCLEAR STATES
and estimatedwarheads
7650
225
300
240
80-100
90-110
>10
80
6
81
1400
5000
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*
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*inherited after fall of the Soviet Union
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A NUCLEARLEGACY
TSARA BOMBA
Little Boy Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Largest Nuclear Weapon
# OF US NUCLEAR BOMBS LOST AND NOT RECOVERED
# OF NUCLEAR BOMBS ONLAUNCH READY STATUS
11
3000
The Uranium isotope that fuels a nuclearchain reaction is U-235. Most Uranium oreis the more common isotope U-238. Only a very smallfraction of Uranium is U-235. [3]
URANIUMENRICHMENT
5 % ENRICHMENTused to fuel reactors
used in medical procedures
used making nuclear weapons
20 % ENRICHMENT
90 % ENRICHMENT
COAL44.9 %
23.4 %
20.3 %
11.5 %
GASNATURAL
NUCLEAR
OTHER
U.S. ELECTRICTYB Y S O U R C E
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NUCLEAR ENERGY
In 2007, nuclear power accounted for 19 percent of the electricity generated and consumed in the United States. This amount of power is comparable to the electricity used in California, Texas, and New York combined. [1]
G01NG NUCLEAR