Sentences with word «kiloton»

At this point, scientists don't know what pumping hundreds of kilotons of SO2 into the stratosphere continually for decades or even centuries would do to the atmosphere.

In the worst case, based on a 100 - kiloton blast at a depth of 700 metres close to the edge of the atoll, radioisotopes could reach the ocean in 25 to 50 years.

According to the NukeMap, a weapon with a 20 - kiloton yield produces a fireball with a radius of 260 meters, making its total width the size of 5 football fields.

By way of further comparison, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 was 20 kilotons in yield.

As impending disaster meets its fate, a following 75 kiloton nuclear blast throws the world into high alert and sends governments into an international hunt for the parties responsible.

According to Australian scientists, a 50 - kiloton explosion at a depth of 600 metres would form a cavity 80 metres wide.

On Tuesday the country conducted its third underground nuclear explosion, a blast estimated to be the same as a six - or seven - kiloton atomic bomb

These measurements can be taken from the video of the «Turk event,» a 43 - kiloton test that took place 508 feet above the desert floor of the Nevada Test Site on March 7, 1955.

Well, it isn't ocean * heat * content, but relevant to climate science in various ways is this story, about quantifying the methane released by the Gulf blowout (roughly estimated at about 7.5 kilotons so far.)

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The fact that it takes only 8.8 pounds of plutonium to produce an atomic bomb in the one - kiloton range makes spent fuel rods an alluring target for sophisticated revolutionary groups.

In the current study, the team analyzed signals that GPS stations received after two 20 - kiloton UNE tests the United States conducted in 1992.

Seismograms of the North Korean nuclear tests show the magnitude of shaking from each and the approximate kilotons of energy released.

Between 2000 and 2013, they identified 33 such events (including the meteoroid that blazed into the atmosphere and detonated over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013, see image; the large blip in the meteor trail at right denotes where the 500 - kiloton airburst occurred).

In May 2015, researchers using NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO - 2) found Yasur to be belching CO2 into the air at a rate of 42 kilotons per day, they reported on 14 December here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

To be fair, «Kiss» has far more in its favor than merely destroying a bridge with a five - kiloton fireball so powerful it could seemingly render Niagara Falls a quarry.

I have nothing against theory, on the contrary, but what about the small empirical matter of observability of such a beast on a planet instrumented to see kiloton events wherever they might happen?

You only have to get within about 1 mile of a jackrabbit with a 500 kiloton weapon to kill it.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

[2] Experts predict the 2013 test is likely to be between 6 and 10 kilotons in yield.

Other physicists, including Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, calculated that strange quark particles would dash through Earth with dramatic effect: a 1 - ton fleck would unleash the energy of a 50 - kiloton nuclear bomb, spread along its entire threadlike path.

In the best case, based on a 100 - kiloton blast at a depth of 1000 metres and well away from the edge of the atoll, radioisotopes would take 750 years to reach the limestone, where fissures stretching to the ocean have appeared as a result of previous tests.

The device tested in 1945 had a 20 kiloton yield, meaning it had the explosive force of 20,000 tons of TNT.

The test of the 100 - kiloton bomb, which led Chinese seismologists to register a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, apparently opened up a hole of up to 656 feet in diameter.

In the real world, power does not mean that one can order other people around — power means force intensity, measured in units like watts per square meter or equivalent 1 kiloton explosions (on the order of 10,000 per hurricane).

Arms - control experts suspect a nation like North Korea may have missile - ready warheads that would explode with 10 to 30 kilotons» worth of TNT.

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.

This is much less powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — about 15 kilotons.

For a 10 - kiloton blast — equivalent to two - thirds of the Hiroshima bomb blast, or 5,000 Oklahoma City truck bombings — that's about a half - mile radius.

North Korea may be capable of launching a miniaturized thermonuclear weapon that yields 100 kilotons of blast energy.

A 10 - kiloton blast can deliver this much exposure within a radius of about a mile, inside the «moderate damage zone.»

However, it's not unlikely when looking at weapons like the new B61 - 12 gravity bomb, which is built by the US, maxes out at 50 kilotons, and can be dialed down to 0.3 kilotons.

The scenario assumes a terrorist - caused nuclear blast of about 10 kilotons» worth of TNT or less.

The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II had explosive yields of about 15 to 20 kilotons, equal to that of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT.

The recently tested bomb is estimated to have an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, which equates to a blast created from 265 million pounds worth of TNT, according to Norsar, a Norwegian geoscience research foundation.

That's as much explosive power as a tactical - grade nuclear weapon — around 1.8 kilotons.

Then again, when GPS guidance puts a nuke within 20 feet of its aiming point, 50 kilotons will be more than enough to deal with most targets.

The B61 Mod 12 has a yield of up to 50 kilotons, about one - seventh of earlier versions.

It features a «dial - a-yield» capability - setting the weapons to deliver as much as 340 kilotons (depending on the version), about 20 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.

Going by Digiconomist's estimates, bitcoin's annual carbon footprint is close to 16,000 kilotons of carbon dioxide.

In this report, the Gluten - Free Products Market is segmented on the basis of type, and region, and is analyzed in terms of value (USD million) and volume (kilotons).

If India and Pakistan fired warheads with a kiloton yield — smaller than ours — it would destroy the monsoon weather patterns, devastating the climate in the entire region.

For comparison, the 2006 test was reported to be 3.9 in magnitude (which translates into an estimated 1 kiloton in yield) and the 2009 test was 4.5 in magnitude (2 - 7 kilotons in yield).

In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the «Czar», the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, which measured 50,000 kilotons.

Different sources estimate that North Korea's 2013 nuclear detonation had up to a 10 kilotons yield.

On the other hand, estimates put the North Korean alleged H - bomb detonation in just six kilotons, a poorer result than the 2013 atomic test.

Each kiloton amounts to 1,000 kilos of TNT.

This is nearly half of the energy released by the bomb dropped on Nagasaki (20 kilotons) and 2/3 of Hiroshima's (15 kilotons) power.

In 2006, the country's first nuclear explosion measured less than one kiloton.