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Home The power of Uranium A Hydrogen Bomb For an Example

The power of Uranium The original atom bomb had a destructive force of 20 kilotons or 20,000 tons of TNT, (The Trinity). This was unleashed on June 16th, 1945. But at the moment the smallest nuclear bomb, in the u.s. arsenal, is a 1 megaton bomb. This bomb has more destructive power, than all of the conventional munitions used in WWII combined! While nuclear weapons are the most deadly force known to man, also the greatest power source. Just as an example to how powerfull they are off of the battle field. A single nuclear Fussion power plant can run for 5 years on a single rail car or uranium. Coal powers over 44% of our nations electricity, with nuclear powering only around 20%. If we switched coal with nuclear power; we would cut down our man made mercury productions by at least a half, and our CO2 carbon footprint by over 50%.  While conventional fuels and production styles (fossil fuels) use thousands of rail cars of fuel every year to continue (Like coal.) operation; producing tons, and kilo-tons of CO2 and smog every year. Take all those rail cars and replace them with... Lets say, replace all of that with a couple pounds of Tritium. Those couple pounds can sustain a home with electricity for its occupants for their **entire** lifetime. Think about all the possibilities that has!

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