Sentences with phrase «kiloton explosions»

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).

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

Not exact matches

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

The work pegged the explosion as equivalent to 22.1 kilotons of TNT, close to the official estimate of 21 kilotons.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

From the fascinating (an intricately diagrammed explanation of nuclear fission) to the terrifying (an in - depth hypothetical example of what would happen if a 150 kiloton nuclear explosion occurred in New York City), the site covers all the bases.

(3) See NRC 2012 CTBT Report Finding 4 - 6: «With the inclusion of regional monitoring, improved understanding of backgrounds, and proper calibration of stations, an evasive tester in Asia, Europe, North Africa or North America would need to restrict device yield to levels below 1 kiloton (even if the explosion were fully decoupled) to ensure no more than a 10 percent probability of detection for IMS and open monitoring networks», and associated text.