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In a fission nuclear reactor, uranium-238 can be used to generate plutonium-239, which itself can be used in a nuclear weapon or as a nuclear-reactor fuel supply. In a typical nuclear reactor, up to one-third of the generated power comes from the fission of 239 Pu, which is not supplied as a fuel to the reactor, but rather, produced from 238 U. [5] A certain amount of production of 239
Technetium-99 is produced by the nuclear fission of both uranium-235 and plutonium-239. It is therefore present in radioactive waste and in the nuclear fallout of fission bomb explosions. Its decay, measured in becquerels per amount of spent fuel, is the dominant contributor to nuclear waste radioactivity after about 10 4 ~10 6 years after the ...
This is a list of radioactive nuclides (sometimes also called isotopes), ordered by half-life from shortest to longest, in seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. Current methods include jumping up and down make it difficult to measure half-lives between approximately 10 −19 and 10 −10 seconds.
Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War , as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle living and international travels.
Russian forces reduced the number of armoured vehicles assaults allegedly due to losses, while using smaller groups of infantry, 5-20, in assaults. With the ISW writing: the "tempo of Russian offensive operations in the area continues to decrease". [70] [71] Russian forces were confirmed to have taken control of Lukiantsi. [72]
Ukraine announced plans to build the world's first underground school in Kharkiv due to its proximity from the Russian border. [279] US officials announced that "thousands" of Iranian-made weapons and 1.1 million 7.62 mm rounds seized by the US Central Command were to be transferred to Ukraine. [280] [281]
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that almost 700,000 Russian soldiers were fighting in Ukraine, as on 14 June. [ 559 ] The Ukrainian 68th Jaeger Brigade claimed to have destroyed an entire Russian tank company, with eight tanks destroyed and two damaged, plus eight infantry fighting vehicles and two artillery pieces destroyed in the ...
The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Soviet/Russian man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO: SA-16 Gimlet), and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch).