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Bookmark or Share- Northern Ontario site selected for nuclear waste underground repositoryTORONTO — A region in northern Ontario was chosen Thursday as the site to hold Canada's nuclear waste in a deep geological repository, a critical milestone in a $26-billion, decades-long project to bury millions of used fuel bundles underground.. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization, a non-profit body funded by the corporations that generate nuclear power and waste, announced that ...
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - WikipediaThe Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and ...
- GBU-43/B MOAB - WikipediaAt the time of development, it was said to be the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal. [3] The bomb is designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants.
- Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions - WikipediaAbout nine o'clock in the morning of 30 May 1626, an explosion of combustibles at the Wanggongchang Armory in Ming -era Beijing, China, destroyed almost everything within an area of two square kilometres (0.77 sq mi) surrounding the site. The estimated death toll was 20,000.
- Do modern nuclear weapons produce no nuclear fallout?First, it's possible to design a "fusion bomb" that maximizes (neutron) radiation output, leading to substantially higher radiation than from a fission device. "The neutron release generated by a nuclear fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components" to quote Wikipedia on that.
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