Alamogordo, New Mexico

Chemical processing or reprocessing (39) of the fuel to extract the plutonium and uranium left a residue of radioactive waste, which was stored in underground tanks. By 1945, the reactors had produced enough plutonium for two nuclear weapons. One was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945 the other was dropped at Nagasaki in August 1945. 

Uses of Plutonium. The fissile isotope Pu had its first use in fission weapons, beginning with the Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, followed soon thereafter by the "Litde Boy" bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Its weapons use was extended as triggers for thermonuclear weapons. This isotope is produced in and consumed as fuel in breeder reactors. The short-Hved isotope Tu has been used in radioisotope electrical generators in unmanned space sateUites, lunar and interplanetary spaceships, heart pacemakers, and (as Tu—Be alloy) neutron sources (23). 

Robert Jenness, formerly Dept, of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota present address 1837 Corte del Ranchero, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. 

The atomic bomb was first tested in a desert area near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The power of the explosion wts approximately equal to the effect of 20,000 tones of TNT. After achieving successful results, it was decided to use the atomic bomb on two important cities in Japan. 

The first atomic explosion was detonated in the desert north of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. What fraction of the strontium-90 (tU2 = 28.8 yr) originally produced by that explosion still remained as of July 16, 2004 ... 

Fuel enrichment. All practicable enrichment processes require the uranium to be in the form of a gas. UFg, which readily sublimes (p. 1269), is universally used and, because fluorine occurs in nature only as a single isotope, the compound has the advantage that separation depends solely on the isotopes of uranium. The first, and until recently the only, large-scale enrichment process was by gaseous diffusion which was originally developed in the Manhattan Project to produce nearly pure U for the first atomic bomb (exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico,... 

Formerly Nursing Coordinator. University of New Mexico at Alamogordo, Alamogordo, New Mexico C. Andrew Powers, PhD,... 

Table 5-1 summarizes plutonium levels measured in air at nine different locations. Since 1945, when the first nuclear weapon test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, was conducted, approximately 360 kCi (1.3x10 Bq) of plutonium-239, -240 have been released into the atmosphere from various sources. The accidental burn up of the SNAP-9 satellite added 17 kCi (6.3x10 Bq) to the higher altitudes of the atmosphere (Perkins and Thomas 1980). 

In July 1945, tl first such atomic bomb or A-bomb (moib properly called a iission bomb) was e loded in Alamogordo, New Mexico. By the next month, two more bombs were manufactured and were e q>loded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, ending World War n. 

Los Alamos scientists successfully test a plutonium implosion bomb in the Trinity shot at Alamogordo, New Mexico. 

The Committee on Atomic Casualties also instructed me to visit the dean of the new medical school at ucla. Dr. Stafford Warren. All 1 knew then was that Dr. Warren had been among the first American physicians to visit both Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs. Only later did I learn that he had been responsible for radiation safety for the entire Manhattan Project, which had developed those first bombs. He had also been a witness at the dawn of the atomic age when the world s first atomic blast lit the skies at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16,1945—less than a month before the bombs were deployed against Japan. 

The somewhat fortuitous discovery of nuclear radiation in 1896 was followed by developments in technology that culminated in the detonation of the first atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. In no other scientific discovery had mankind unleashed such enormous power. In no other scientific endeavor had scientists struggled so desperately with their creation. Yet their progress could not be reversed the laws of nature, once learned, are not easily forgotten. 

The first controlled and sustained fission reaction was operated successfully in 1942 at the University of Chicago with comparatively impure and chain breakers. The first branching chain fission reaction was successfully carried out in a test explosion with pure Pu in 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico,... 

First atomic device, Trinity," detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico by the Manhattan Engineer restrict of the Army Corps of Engineers (Manhattan Project). 

Alamogordo, New Mexico, designated the TVinity Test Site, where the first successful detonation of a nuclear device would take place on 16 July 1945. 

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