megatons in A Sentence

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    We estimate between two and four Megatons.

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    Explosion in forest area(10- 15 Megatons of TNT).

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    How significant? We estimate between two and four Megatons.

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    The explosive power was equivalent to 1.4 Megatons of TNT.

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    By contrast, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was .02 Megatons.

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    On July 9, 1962, a 1.45 megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated in low earth orbit.

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    For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated(the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) produced 50 Megatons.

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    The terms of the Megatons to Megawatts Program also required that the HEU be converted to LEU in Russian nuclear facilities.

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    It's not clear when the idea of making it a 100 megaton bomb came about or who made the suggestion;

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    For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated(the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union)“only” produced 50 Megatons of TNT worth of energy.

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    For reference, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated(the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union) produced 50 Megatons of TNT worth of energy.

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    For reference, as mentioned, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated(the Tsar Bomba by the Soviet Union)“only” produced 50 Megatons of TNT worth of energy.

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    To further illustrate, 1 megaton of TNT, when converted to kilowatt hours, makes enough electricity to power an average American home for about 100,000 years.

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    However, it was calculated as only containing 25% of the power of the explosion that rocked Krakatoa, which exploded with an estimated force of 200 Megatons.

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    On the 30th of October 1961, preparations had been finalized and Russia was ready to show the world just what a 50 megaton explosion looked like.

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    The unit name megatonne or megaton(Mt) is often used in general-interest literature on greenhouse gas emissions, whereas the equivalent unit in scientific papers on the subject is often the teragram Tg.

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    As it turned out, as Ariel-1 was happily free-falling around the Earth, the US military had decided to detonate an experimental 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon named Starfish-Prime in the upper atmosphere…'.

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    As it turned out, as Ariel-1 was happily free-falling around the Earth, the US military had decided to detonate an experimental 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon named Starfish-Prime in the upper atmosphere as part of Project Fish Bowl.

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    The research proposes that eliminating regular flaring and cutting methane leaks and venting to rates already accomplished in Norway could cut nearly 700 Megatons of emissions from the oil sector's yearly carbon footprint- a reduction of approximately 43%.

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    On a small, desolate island called Krakatau west of Sumatra in Indonesia, the most violent volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred, estimated to have produced an equivalent of a 200 megaton explosion, which is about 4 times that of the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba.

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    The largest underground thermonuclear tests conducted by the United States were detonated in Amchitka at the western end of the Aleutian Islands, and the largest of these was the 5 megaton test code-named Cannikin that occurred on November 6, 1971 that did not trigger any earthquakes in the seismically active Aleutian Islands.

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    The device did indeed have the potential to be detonated with a yield of 100 Megatons, though, but after some modifications- particularly using a lead tamper instead of one made of depleted uranium in at least one of the three stages, and possibly two, this was halved to a“mere” 50 Megatons, which for your reference is over 3000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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