a betatron

[RICoder]

Well, yes and no. 50kg is an approximation. So, perhaps U235 * ~50Kg would be better.

I am quite sure that the mole calculation was used in reverse to come up with this number. Essentially it is not a mass thing per se, it is more a population thing. I.e. one must contain a certain number of U235 atoms in order to provide a critical mass. Critical mass would be then the number of atoms required to garuntee enough degrading atoms to cause the impregnation of neighboring atoms leading to a 'stable' fission chain reaction.

*waits for feds to knock down door*

[Cameron]

Yeah, it was the same story. The kid bought 100 defective smoke detectors for 1 dollar each. And david, americium is really bad shit, hmm, kinda like the country it was named after.

[Warren]

Impregnation! I used words like, explode, disintegrate, and KABOOM!!

Well, my sig means 50kg OF U-235, so that would be U-235 * 50kg, for U-235 = 1 kg. 50 kg of U-235 would = ~1.4x10^26 atoms. (140 septillion)

Actually, 50kg is supercritical mass, but for the atomic bomb "Little Man", they had to use 100kg because they couldn't make PURE U-235.

[TechMage]

Wow, you guys know alot about physics and chemistry!

About Nuclear stuff, I think the world would be better off if we never had invented Nuclear technologies. Think about it. Nuclear bombs, may protect us for now, but wait untill some Hilter type person takes control of a country and launches a few nukes, that causes the whole world to launch them and blow or radiate us off the face of the earth. Nuclear power, is also crap as we all know. Nuclear power plants are dangerious, harmfull to the inviroment, harmfull to people around them, and if there is a melt down, then thousands if not millions of people die along with radiating the place around the power plant for a very long time. Sure, nukes are facinating because they are the most powerfull weapons known to humans, and Nuclear power is interesting also, but I think the world would be a better place, if we never would have invented Nuclear technology.

[Warren]

I have a whole section on nuclear power plants in my report, they're not dangerous or even really environmently bad, coal and oil power plants are A MILLION times worse!! Yeah meltdowns are bad, but they aren't as bad as you think, because the media tries to make it seem like it's like a nuclear warhead, which it's far from. The uranium used in power plants is only 3.5% U-235, as compared to 95% in bombs.

As for some hitler guy....Bush?

Yeah, we could definitely live without nuclear weapons...

[glenthemole]

[TechMage]

[Warren Guest]

[James S]

[refractor]

Surely it'd be much more fun to build a megatron?

[RICoder]

[Jadam]

lol refractor.

anyways, RiCoder is right, without nukes we would be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far behind. A Nuclear Reactor can produce SOOOOOOO much more Energy per kilogram of U-235 then ANY fossil fuel.
and BTW, Fuck what you said Techmage, Fuel Cells all the way!! and Nuclear Fusion t00!!

BTW, if the USA really wanted to, they could send all that nuclear waste straight into the sun to blow up and burn the earth in the process




Anyways, back to the Betatron!!!!! Im building me one, 2MeV per particle maybe more i need to decide. Im just going to make it for fun, collide it with some stuff yah know.

[Warren]

[James S]

[glenthemole]