Sentences with phrase «kiloton blast»

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.

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.

Armed with accurate NEO information, scientists can warn «countries that might be arguing with one another that this kiloton blast in the sky is not a man - made event,» he says.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

Allison has posted the grim answer on his Web site (www.nuclearterror.org), which shows a three - color «blast map» depicting the effects of a 10 - kiloton bomb, about the smallest a workable nuclear device could be.

Analysis of the seismic waves caused by last week's blast put the yield of the warhead tested at between 50 and 100 kilotons.

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.