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If you want to cause a nuclear explosion:

It takes protons (or electrons, please answer) and shoots them at an atom. The atom then, once it is split, it releases a great amount of atomic thermal radiation.

If you want to fuse:

I you want to mix atoms such as atom 114 then you would shoot out calcium and mix it with the element Plutonium and they fuse together with all the friction/radiation.

2007-01-02 11:25:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

If you want to cause a nuclear explosion:

It takes protons (or electrons, please answer) and shoots them at an atom. The atom then, once it is split, it releases a great amount of atomic thermal radiation.

If you want to fuse:

I you want to mix atoms such as atom 114 then you would shoot out calcium and mix it with the element Plutonium and they fuse together with all the friction/radiation.

If this isnt how it works, then explain how it does?

2007-01-02 11:33:29 · update #1

5 answers

you might have better luck finding an explanation on the Internet if you spell it "accelerator"

2007-01-02 11:33:29 · answer #1 · answered by Catspaw 6 · 0 0

the first part you are talking about nuclear fission, there are 2 forms of nuclear energy "generation" fission and fusion the difference is fission is splitting the atom, and fusion is joining it. and yes you take an unstable element such as urianium, then bombard it with nutrons, this creates a new, very unstable atom that can not sustain itself so it must split to gain stabitlity, but it can't so it splits again, and these splits give us our energy the first time it happens, there is very little energy not even enough to light a light bulb but as it happens over and over again more and more energy is released, and yes a lot is realised, because what comes in to play is E=MC2 which means energy is equal to the speed of light squared, the speed of light is a fast 299792458ms or in standard form 2.99792458x10 to the power of 8 fission is used in both genorators, and bombs. but fusion is not used in reactors yet, because it doesn't work very well but if ITER (international thermo-nuclear energy reactor) works then it will be possable to generate vast amounts of power (for electricity generation, by passing a magnet though a non-magnetic, electrical conductor) just a steam generator hooked up to ITER which will use sea water, so lets hope it works

2007-01-02 11:35:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

For the first one, your talking about fission and it takes protons. Particle accelerators involve reversed polarity magnets zooming particles until they approach light speed and then slamming them into larger particls and that causes an energy force that is greater than nucleaer energy.

2007-01-02 12:25:09 · answer #3 · answered by HachiKun 1 · 0 0

Ooh yeah,intelligent men who want to cause a nuclear explosion
but get run over crossing the street.Glad I'm a dumb ole hick.

2007-01-02 11:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by harleyman 3 · 0 0

Nope.

2007-01-02 11:27:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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