If we're talking actual construction time of a nuclear power plant, it's a bit of a long endeavor and depends on the design. Generally, plant construction can take 40-60 months from the first concrete pour to the end of construction when fuel is l. A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. Nuclear devices range from a small portable device carried by an individual to a weapon carried by a missile. A nuclear explosion may occur with or without a few minutes warning. The president almost certainly would set aside the nuclear option, opting for time to build up American and NATO conventional forces for a counter-offensive. Another scenario could involve a conflict with China in which the Chinese military, using its large arsenal of conventionally-armed ballistic missiles, pushes back U.S. Naval and air forces.

As technology advances and distances are eliminated, our lives are becoming much more fast paced. The need for accurate measurement of time is dire and Atomic Clocks solve this need with an error margin of 1 second to 100 million years. Clocks, in general, are measuring the passage of time by counting the beat of a resonator — such as. The time frame needed for formalities, planning and building of a new nuclear power generation plant is in the range of 20 to 30 years in the western democracies. In other words: It is an illusion to build new nuclear power plants in a short time.

Nuclear Time is a BBC Books original novel written by Oli Smith and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eleventh Doctor along with Amy Pond and Rory Williams.^[1]

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In Colorado in 1981, The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown, an idyllic village in the middle of the American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their routines. However, all is not as it seems. The village is populated by murdering robots who will kill the moment their cover is blown: 5 minutes in the Doctor's case. While Amy and Rory run and hide in the town, the Doctor is trapped, going backwards in time and getting ever further away.

The awful truth dawns on him: Appletown is a dummy, a prefabricated town awaiting destruction by a Nuclear bomb, designed to kill the robots. Can the Doctor get himself, Amy and Rory out while he is going backwards in time and the TARDIS is stuck at ground zero.

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References[edit]

1. ^Tessier, Daniel (July 2010). 'Nuclear Time'. Doctor Who Reviews. Retrieved 6 August 2014.

External links[edit]

• Nuclear Time title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Jean M. Bele

Physics Dept., Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT

• A typical nuclear weapon detonation produces a huge number of X-rays, which heat the air around the detonation to extremely high temperatures, causing the heated air to expand and form a large fireball within less than one millionth of one second of the weapon's detonation. The size of the nuclear fireball is a function of yield, the height of burst, and the surrounding environment.
• The nuclear fireball is tens of millions of degrees (i.e., as hot as the interior of the sun). Inside the fireball, the temperature and pressure cause a complete desintegration of molecules and atoms.
  For further information see Nuclear weapons effects

• Related to the fireball size is the question of the height of burst at which early (or local) fallout ceases to be a serious problem. (¹).

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For example, an explosion of 1000 kilotons(1 megaton yield), it can be found from our calculator that significant local fallout is probable for heights of burst less than about 2,900 feet or 870 meters.

• The fallout is the radioactive products when they settle to the ground some time after the nuclear explosion. Radioactive fallout contaminate large areas and is an immediate and extreme biological hazard

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¹Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan:The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Prepared and published by the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE and the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

The size of the bomb can be chosen by selecting the weapon’s yield, as measured in kilotons.

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Enter the explosion yield in kilotons: