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The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives.In most cases, the energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated within the lower atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories: [1]
In a nuclear explosion, the human body can experience varying types of radiation. This radiation can be classified into two groups: initial radiation and residual radiation. Initial radiation is emitted during the initial explosion, which releases short-term radionuclides. The residual radiation is emitted after the initial attack from ...
A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device.
The last two effects travel close together, but the air blast goes much further, and it causes the most damage in a nuclear explosion by tumbling vehicles, toppling weak buildings, and throwing ...
In nuclear EMP all of the components of the electromagnetic pulse are generated outside of the weapon. [33] For high-altitude nuclear explosions, much of the EMP is generated far from the detonation (where the gamma radiation from the explosion hits the upper atmosphere). This electric field from the EMP is remarkably uniform over the large ...
The 1986 nuclear reactor explosion at Chernobyl was categorized as a Level 7 accident, which is the highest possible ranking on the INES scale, due to widespread environmental and health effects and "external release of a significant fraction of reactor core inventory". [57]
RELATED: Here is the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima The very first time the U.S. built a nuclear weapon was in December 1941, and the first regular nuclear test took place on ...
The report said that there had only been two major accidents in the “entire history of nuclear energy”: Chernobyl and the Fukushima disaster of 2011 “and the effects of these, while serious ...