PPT-Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission

Update on Idaho Cleanup Project Jack Zimmerman Manager Idaho Cleanup Project January 17 2016 Cleanup Priorities Protect workers the public and the environment Protect the Snake River Plain Aquifer. By: Aiden Cook, Kaitlyn Hemauer,. Abbey Loar, and . Elizabeth Rogers. How Does It Work?-Abbey. Nuclear Power Plants and fossil fuels are almost the same.. To keep the water under pressure you use a Pressurized Water Reactor. . I can draw a . model of nuclear fission.. I can . recognize a nuclear fission equation. .. I can . describe two applications for nuclear fission.. I can . draw a model of nuclear fusion. .. I can . recognize a nuclear fusion equation. st . Century. Liping Gan.  . University of North Carolina Wilmington.  . Outline. Introduction. What is nuclear energy?. Early history of nuclear power. Current status. Critical Issues. Future of nuclear energy. Is radiation dangerous? . Is nuclear power a good choice?. . What is nuclear energy?. Are nuclear energy and nuclear bombs both dangerous? . Guiding Questions. The Power of the Nucleus. Bravo – 15,000 kilotons. John C. Besley, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Ellis N. Brandt Chair. Part 1: . Publicly reported polls. Part 2: . Academic research. Bisconti. Research for the . Nuclear Energy Institute. (data collection by . Nuclear physics . . what’s inside the nucleus and what . holds it together . . what is radioactivity, half-life . . carbon dating . . Nuclear energy. nuclear fission. nuclear fusion. Fission and Fusion. A brief history…. 1919: Ernest Rutherford experimented with bombarding nitrogen gas molecules with alpha particles emitted from bismuth-214. Discovery: faster moving particles were produced, and these could travel farther than the alpha particles!. GGI May 2011. . V. . Kaplunovsky. . A. . Dymarsky. , D. . Melnikov. and S. Seki, . Introduction. In recent years . holography. or . gauge/gravity duality. has provided a new tool to handle strong coupling problems.. Nuclear chemistry is the study of the structure of and the they undergo.. atomi. c nuclei. changes. Chemical vs. Nuclear Reactions. Learning Goal . Write a balanced nuclear equation showing mass numbers and atomic numbers for radioactive decay.. Balancing Nuclear Equations. In a process called . radioactive decay. , the nucleus breaks down by emitting radiation. . WJEC Physics Unit 2 - 2.9. Nuclear Fusion. H – Deuterium nucleus. 2. 1. H – Deuterium nucleus. 2. 1. Two deuterium nuclei approach one another. The two nuclei collide. Nuclear Fusion. H –nucleus. Enormous Energies. Nuclear Fission. Take a large atom and impact the nucleus with a particle. . Split the atom releasing high energy, more high energy neutrons, and two daughter nuclides.. Fission occurs only rarely in nature. Alpha decay is much more common.. A naturally . radioactive element . will . emit . energy without the absorption of energy from an outside source. . The nucleus of an element becomes radioactive because of an unstable ratio of protons to neutrons in the nucleus.. Stephen Croft (ORNL). Ramkumar Venkataraman (ORNL). Louise G. Worrall (ORNL). Robert D. McElroy Jr. (ORNL). Andrea Favalli (LANL). Acknowledgement. This work was sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (NA-22) and in part by ORNL and LANL..