Easeful Nuclear Energy

These numbers do not provide an argument for desalination on anything like the hypothesized scale, much less an argument for nuclear energy per se. But they provide an illustration of the ways in which having ample energy supplies can help to ease the support of a larger world population. 

MOSSBAUER EFFECT. The phenomenon of recoilless resonance lluorescence of gamma rays front nuclei hound itt solids. It was first discovered in 1958 hy R.I.. Mbssbauer. The extreme sharpness of the rccoilless gamma transitions and the relative ease and accuracy in observ ing small energy differences make the effect an important tool in nuclear physics, solid-state physics, mid chemistry. 

We can extend the method to heteronuclear diatomics with relative ease. Since the heteronuclear molecule does not have the nuclear exchange symmetry the g and u character is lost, but the rest of the notation remains the same. The correlation diagram becomes more complicated because of the difference in energies of the electron on the two different separated atoms. It is worth noting that isoelectronic species such as N=N, C=0,... 

Natural uranium can be used as fuel in a nuclear reactor however, as the proportion of U increases, the ease with which a fission reactor can be used as an energy source increases. Modem light-water-moderated reactors are fueled by uranium enriched in U from 0.71% (natural) to 3-5%. For greater U enrichments, the size of a reactor for a given power level can decrease reactors for ship propulsion use starting enrichments of at least 10% to minimize... 

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