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How powerful would an antimatter bomb be compared to a nuclear bomb?
A gram of antimatter could produce an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb. However, humans have produced only a minuscule amount of antimatter. Making 1 gram of antimatter would require approximately 25 million billion kilowatt-hours of energy and cost over a million billion dollars.
Would an antimatter explosion cause radiation?
Given the very small quantity of energy required to induce fatal radiation poisening via ionizing radiation especially that of gamma rays, 10 nanograms of antimatter released in a large dense crowd could result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths from radiation poisioning.
What is anti matter bomb?
An antimatter weapon is a theoretically possible device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon. Annihilation requires and converts exactly equal masses of antimatter and matter by the collision which releases the entire mass-energy of both, which for 1 gram is ~9×1013 joules.
How does an anti matter bomb work?
The fictional bomb works by touching 1 gram of matter to 1 gram of antimatter a substance made of sub-atomic particles with properties opposite those of normal matter particles causing them to annihilate in a tremendous explosion.
How radioactive fallout is produced by the explosion of a bomb?
Sources of radioactive fallout The powerful blast of an atomic bomb is the result of energy released when the nuclei of unstable heavy elements are split, such as uranium-235 and plutonium-239. In some cases, neutrons released during fission can interact with nearby materials to create new radioactive elements.
How bad is the fallout from a nuclear bomb?
Green: Radiation (0.74-mile radius) — Within at least 15 minutes of a blast, clouds of dust and sandlike radioactive particles — what’s referred to as nuclear fallout — would reach the ground. Nuclear fallout can expose people to radiation poisoning, which can damage the body’s cells and prove fatal.