 | Here it Comes - Uranium 235 Theme: Looking into reaching someone Filling up my vase with dimes Smashing into this tin cup Fixed up with a pair of broken pliers Get what you are, Right into me One thousand more times Here it Comes (I'm saving you, I'm saving me) Mother nature so cold and severe Turns my tears into icy skies Reaching for self preservation Stale blood surrounds you drawing muddy flies Get what you are, Right into me One thousand more times Here it Comes (I'm saving you, I'm saving me) Not of this world, for in my mind, I roam around in space So far away I long and wait, To meet a friendly face Voices echo in my past, But still I'm lost in space In the silence a flickering light, That blinks on endlessly So far away I long and wait, To meet a friendly face Not of this world, for in my mind, I roam around in SPACE |
 | URANIUM 235 : The last trip of the Mecanic Evgracov A REPORT BY PHILIPPE BUFFON AND BEATRICE SCHNEIDER Philippe Buffon and Beatrice Schneider spent more than three weeks on a Russian cargo ship that was transporting enriched uranium to France and England . In the relatively free and candid comments of the crew, who in part, still labor under the heavy influence of the « great USSR », our journalists began to see a microcosme of the Russian Society at large. We approached the crew on a variety of different subjects relating to the problems of the Russian Society. But, we also disscused with the their day-to-day life - and the disappearance of the Russian fleet. Fact shipwright: The Baltic Shipping Company, a Russian maritime company in collapse. An example of the difficulty in adapting to the changes brought about by the privatisation of the Russian economy in 1993. (colossal debt, inept direction, an aging fleet, corruption, scandal-the assassination of a director-embezzlement of funds.) A shocking report that illuminates the increasingly worrisome question of the safety of the transporting and handling of nuclear materials by Russian companies |
 | Drown - Uranium 235 Drown, Drown Drown, Drown Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air And you know that I need you So give me something I can do But you just take and rip away, until it's over I've been waiting for so long Finally found out what went wrong Listen closely and you will hear, That it is over, Right now She ties you down, down, down, down, down, down, down Wasted!! You made me love you Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Lie your head down thoughts consume On a blanket in your room Wraps into fire and comes so clear Face Head over Drifting out, Out into sea Looking glass, Cleared for me Glancing slowly for some room To bang a nail solidly through It's all over can't you see I've given you all of me So scratch until you dig away, All of the venom from your vein I can't help you, Can't you see, That it is over Don't you know it's over, Don't you know it's over Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Drown, Drown, Suffocating no air, Underwater no air Sacrifice my soul to you Disappearing in thin air |
 | Atomic Bomb School Project On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb. Making Enriched Uranium The most complicated issue to be addressed in making of an atomic bomb was the production of ample amounts of "enriched" uranium to sustain a chain reaction. At the time, uranium-235 was very hard to extract. In fact, the ratio of conversion from uranium ore to uranium metal is 500:1. Compounding this, the one part of uranium that is finally refined from the ore is over 99% uranium-238, which is practically useless for an atomic bomb. To make the task even more difficult, the useful U-235 and nearly useless U-238 are isotopes, nearly identical in their chemical makeup. No ordinary chemical extraction method could separate them; only mechanical methods could work. A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Harold Urey and his colleagues at Columbia University devised an extraction system that worked on the principle of gaseous diffusion, and Ernest Lawrence (inventor of the Cyclotron) at the University of California in Berkeley implemented a process involving magnetic separation of the two isotopes. Next, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier, non-fissionable U-238. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that needed to be done was to put to the test the entire concept behind atomic fission ("splitting the atom," in layman's terms). Robert Oppenheimer - Manhattan Project Over the course of six years, from 1939 to 1945, more than $2 billion was spent during the history of the Manhattan Project. The formulas for refining uranium and putting together a working atomic bomb were created and seen to their logical ends by some of the greatest minds of our time. Chief among the people who unleashed the power of the atom was Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the project from conception to completion. Testing The Gadget aka Atomic Bomb Finally, the day came when all at Los Alamos would find out if "The Gadget" (code-named as such during its development) was going to be the colossal dud of the century or perhaps an end to the war. It all came down to a fateful morning in midsummer, 1945. At 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16, 1945, in a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies, "The Gadget" ushered in the Atomic Age. The light of the explosion then turned orange as the atomic fireball began shooting upwards at 360 feet per second, reddening and pulsing as it cooled. The characteristic mushroom cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Beneath the cloud, all that remained of the soil at the blast site were fragments of jade green radioactive glass created by the heat of the reaction. The brilliant light from the detonation pierced the early morning skies with such intensity that residents from a faraway neighboring community would swear that the sun came up twice that day. Even more astonishing is that a blind girl saw the flash 120 miles away. Upon witnessing the explosion, its creators had mixed reactions. Isidor Rabi felt that the equilibrium in nature had been upset as if humankind had become a threat to the world it inhabited. Robert Oppenheimer, though ecstatic about the success of the project, quoted a remembered fragment from the Bhagavad Gita. "I am become Death," he said, "the destroyer of worlds." Ken Bainbridge, the test director, told Oppenheimer, "Now we're all sons of bitches." After viewing the results several participants signed petitions against loosing the monster they had created, but their protests fell on deaf ears. The Jornada del Muerto of New Mexico would not be the last site on planet Earth to experience an atomic explosion. |
 | nuclear bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki pls rate & sub. On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from Tinian, a North Pacific island in the Marianas, 1,500 miles south of Japan. The twelve-man crew were on board to make sure this secret mission went smoothly. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, nicknamed the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother.On a hook in the ceiling of the plane, hung the ten-foot atomic bomb, "Little Boy." It was created using uranium-235, a radioactive isotope of uranium. This uranium-235 atomic bomb, a product of $2 billion of research, had never been tested. On August 6, 1945, the first choice target, Hiroshima, was having clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. (local time), the Enola Gay's door sprang open and dropped "Little Boy." The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet.Two-thirds of Hiroshima was destroyed. Within three miles of the explosion, 60,000 of the 90,000 buildings were demolished. Clay roof tiles had melted together. Shadows had imprinted on buildings and other hard surfaces. Metal and stone had melted. Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000; approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation within five years. While the people of Japan tried to comprehend the devastation in Hiroshima, the United States was preparing a second bombing mission. The second run was not delayed in order to give Japan time to surrender, but was waiting only for a sufficient amount of plutonium-239 for the atomic bomb. On August 9, only three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, another B-29, Bock's Car , left Tinian at 3:49 a.m.The first choice target for this bombing run had been Kokura. Since the haze over Kokura prevented the sighting of the bombing target, Bock's Car continued on to its second target. At 11:02 a.m., the atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped over Nagasaki. |
 | Nuclear Weapons Test-596-Chinese Test 22kt This pure-fission U-235 implosion fission device named "596" was China's first nuclear test. The device weighed 1550 kg. No plutonium was available at this time. 596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. The People's Republic of China began developing nuclear weapons in the late 1950s with substantial Soviet assistance. The order for the Chinese nuclear weapons program, designated by the codename of "02", was given by Chairman Mao Tse Tsung himself, who believed that without a nuclear weapon China would not be taken seriously as a world power. The events of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954-55 cemented Mao's belief that unless China had nuclear weapons of its own, it would constantly be under the threat of nuclear blackmail from the United States. Prior to 1960, direct Soviet military assistance had included the provision of advisors and a vast variety of equipment. Of the assistance provided, most significant to China's future strategic nuclear capability were an experimental nuclear reactor, facilities for processing uranium, a cyclotron, and some equipment for a gaseous diffusions plant. At one point the Soviet Union even agreed to supply a prototype nuclear weapon for analysis by the Chinese; this agreement was not, however, put into effect. When Sino-Soviet relations cooled in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet Union withheld plans and data for an atomic bomb, abrogated the agreement on transferring defense technology and, starting in 1960, began the withdrawal of Soviet advisors. Despite the termination of Soviet assistance, China committed itself to continue nuclear weapons development to break "the superpowers' monopoly on nuclear weapons", to ensure Chinese security against the Soviet and United States threats, and to increase Chinese prestige and power internationally, especially with France recently emerging as a new nuclear force in February 1960 (Gerboise Bleue). The motto at the time was: "Even the poorest tramp needs a dog-beating stick." The first Chinese atomic bomb, code-named 596, was detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nor nuclear test site. It was an implosion-style nuclear weapon, though it utilized uranium-235 exclusively for its core — most countries which pursue implosion technology use plutonium for their first cores, because it is usually easier to produce than uranium-235 — as at the time it had not developed plutonium-production technology. The test had a yield of 22 kilotons. China would manage to develop a fission bomb capable of being put onto a nuclear missile only two years after its first detonation, and would detonate its first hydrogen bomb only three years later in 1967. The United States intelligence agencies were caught off-guard by the Chinese test in 1964. Despite having photographed pre-test preparation at the Lop Nur nuclear testing site, many U.S. analysts believed that the Chinese were still months, if not years, away from having a functional nuclear weapon, in part because they erroneously assumed that the first Chinese bomb would be plutonium-fueled and that their Lanzhou diffusion enrichment facility was not yet operable (even though it had actually produced enough highly-enriched uranium for a number of bombs by that time). The U.S. analysts additionally misidentified a facility designed to produce uranium tetrafluoride as a plutonium production facility, making their estimates of Chinese plutonium production significantly off. It was only after radiochemical analysis of the fallout cloud from the Chinese test conclusively demonstrated that the bomb had been a U-235 implosion device, that these errors were re-examined in detail. *Credit Must Go To Trinity and Beyond by Peter Kuran for This Excellent Footage* |
 | James Williams & Uranium 235 @ Club 1015 Halloween 2003 |
 | You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Cover Version This is the original musicvideo from Dead Or Alive, but with the modern coverversion of this song(uranium 235) |
 | NUCLEAR ARMS PARTS 1 & 2 A short film telling the story of the search, mining, refinement, and use of atomically active chemicals like uranium-235 and plutonium-239. |
 | URANUIM 235 : LE DERNIER VOYAGE DU MEKHANIK EFGRAFOV Un reportage de 52 minutes, réalisé par Philippe BUFFON et Béatrice SCHNEIDER. Ils ont passé prés de trois semaines sur un cargo transportant de l'uranium enrichi de St Pétersbourg vers la France et l'Angleterre .... (problèmes de sécurité et de normes internationales ) La Baltic Shipping Cie, une compagnie maritime russe à la dérive. Un instantané sur les difficultés d'adaptation aux changements survenus depuis la privatisation de cette société en 1993 - [dettes colossales, mauvaise gestion, vieillissement de la flotte, corruption, « affaires », assassinat d'un dirigeant,détournement de fonds...] Un aperçu des problèmes auxquels se heurtent l'ensemble de la population évoqués à travers les libres propos d'un équipage de marins issus de toutes les régions de l'ex Empire soviétique - Un microcosme qui nous révèle ses espoirs et ses craintes pour l'avenir... |
 | Uranium 238 This is a nice sample of near-pure Uranium-238. It is nearly one-hundred percent pure BECAUSE it has been processed so that most of the usable Uranium-235 is taken out to be used for fuel or weapons. I bought it from United Nuclear. There is 5 grams of it inside the vacuum pouch (which I do NOT open in this demonstration). |
 | How a Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor works Pressurized water nuclear reactor (pwr) |
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