Sentences with phrase «kilotons in»

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If we ever did need to destroy an asteroid on short notice, a 2009 study led by David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reassuringly showed that a 900 - kiloton nuclear device — which is within our capability — would permanently disperse a 1 - kilometre asteroid.

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 current study, the team analyzed signals that GPS stations received after two 20 - kiloton UNE tests the United States conducted in 199In the current study, the team analyzed signals that GPS stations received after two 20 - kiloton UNE tests the United States conducted in 199in 1992.

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.

Tesla was a relatively low - yield shot of seven kilotons, dropped from a 300 - foot tower at the government's test site in Nevada on March 1, 1955.

Thomas Cochran, senior scientist at the NRDC and one of the report's authors, says a 1 - kiloton bomb could be made with as little as 1 kilogram of plutonium from designs developed by American weapons researchers in the 1950s and described in technical reports that are no longer classified.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

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.

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.

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.

To propel their ships, the Orioneers came up with a kiloton pulse unit as small as 13 inches in diameter, which focused the propellant into a jet as narrow as 15 degrees.

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 yearIn 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 yearin 25 to 50 years.

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 editor writes: • A model in which two states each use 50 small (15 - kiloton) warheads predicts 5 million tonnes of black carbon from firestorms entering the stratosphere (doi.org/b55g).

(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.

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.

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 hurricaneIn 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 hurricanein units like watts per square meter or equivalent 1 kiloton explosions (on the order of 10,000 per hurricane).

So if I understand the basic flow chart, the plant will suck in 80 kilotons of air per second, cool it enough to cause the CO2 to precipitate out, and pump the 80 kilotons (minus 32 tons of CO2) of CO2 free air far enough away to prevent it from mixing with the intake.

In fact, this was attempted in Rulison, Colorado in 1969 using a 40 kiloton nuclear devicIn fact, this was attempted in Rulison, Colorado in 1969 using a 40 kiloton nuclear devicin Rulison, Colorado in 1969 using a 40 kiloton nuclear devicin 1969 using a 40 kiloton nuclear device.

The country emitted only about 16,000 kilotons of CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gases in 2012, the latest available year, compared to the United States» 6.3 million.

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.)

It exploded miles above Earth, releasing nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added.