Chemistry of the Atomic Bomb Episode 4: Hanford

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Ever wonder how the atomic bombs were made? Come on in!

Episode 4 discusses plutonium synthesis and separation at the Hanford Engineer Works in Hanford, WA.

0:00 Intro
0:57 Theoretical Element 94
3:46 Discovering Plutonium
7:23 Yea, But Can it Fission?
8:41 Roadmap for Plutonium
9:20 Building a Plutonium Reactor
14:42 Uranium Slugs 101
16:37 Neutron Poison
18:20 Separating Plutonium from Literally Everything Else
26:55 Grab Bag

Various Sources of Info:

I ran out of room and couldn't put the full links to all these Wikipedia pages, so here's the general query:

- Neutron Capture
- Edwin Mcmillan
- Neptunium
- Glenn T. Seaborg
- Deuterium
- Plutonium-238
- Emilio Segre
- Persulfate
- Plutonium
- Plutonium-239
- Lanthanum Trifluoride
- Cerium(III) Fluoride
- Sulfuric Acid
- Hydrofluoric Acid
- Sodium Bromate
- Platinum
- Nuclear Graphite
- Heavy Water
- Bismuth
- Argonne National Laboratory
- X-10 Graphite Reactor
- Hanford Site
- B Reactor
- Trichloroethylene
- Nitric Acid
- Bronze
- Tin
- Sodium Dichromate
- Acenaphthene
- Methanol
- Isotopes Of Iodine
- Xenon-135
- Iodine Pit
- Parts-Per Notation
- Coprecipitation
- Stanley Gerald Thompson
- Zirconium Phosphate
- Uranyl Metaphosphate
- Bismuth Phosphate Process
- Sodium Hydroxide
- Sodium Aluminate
- Bismuth(III) Nitrate
- Phosphoric Acid
- Sodium Bismuthate
- Potassium Permanganate
- Sodium Dichromate
- Ammonium Iron(II) Sulfate
- Oxalic Acid
- Americium
- Curium
- Berkelium
- Einsteinium
- Fermium
- Mendelevium
- Nobelium
- Seaborgium

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