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41WE.177 — was the last air launched nuclear bomb of the British Armed Forces. There were three versions; WE.177A was a boosted fission weapon, while WE.177B and WE.177C were thermonuclear weapons. All could be delivered by air, and were typically parachute …
42Mark 15 nuclear bomb — Mark 15 bomb The Mark 15 nuclear bomb, or Mk 15, was a 1950s American thermonuclear bomb, the first relatively lightweight (7,600 lb / 3450 kg) thermonuclear bomb created by the United States. The Mark 15 was first produced in 1955, in a… …
43Orange Herald — was the name of a British nuclear weapon of the 1950s. Contents 1 Technical 2 See also 3 External links 4 References …
44Europium — (pronEng|jʊˈroʊpiəm) is a chemical element with the symbol Eu and atomic number 63. It was named after the continent Europe. Characteristics Europium is the most reactive of the rare earth elements; it rapidly oxidizes in air, and resembles… …
45Trinity (nuclear test) — For other uses, see Trinity (disambiguation). Trinity The Trinity explosion, 0.016 seconds after detonation. The fireball is about 600 feet (200 m) wide. The black specks silhouetted along the horizon are trees. Information Country… …
46Europium-155 — is a radioisotope or Europium and fission product with a halflife of 4.76 years. It has a maximum decay energy of 252 KeV. In a thermal reactor (almost all current nuclear power plants), it has a low fission product yield, about half of one… …
47Technetium-99 — (99Tc) is an isotope of technetium which decays with a half life of 211,000 years, emitting soft beta rays but no gamma rays, and has a fission product yield of 6.0507% for thermal neutron fission of uranium 235. It is the most significant long… …
48W79 — The W79 was an American nuclear artillery shell, fired from standard 8 inch (203 mm) howitzers. The W79 was produced in two models, the W79 Mod 0 and W79 Mod 1 . Both were a plutonium based linear implosion, nuclear weapon.The Mod 0 was a… …
49radioactivity — /ray dee oh ak tiv i tee/, n. Physics, Chem. the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element. Also called activity. [1895… …
50Spent nuclear fuel — Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant) to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction. Nuclear… …
