Image: Usable nuclear energy in ICBM

Description: Image explaining how much nuclear energy is in one (Minuteman 3) ICBM. Image was made based on File:Light_Bulb-Silhouette.svg, File:Minuteman_comparison.png and File:Minuteman12.png References= Thermonuclear bomb (most used nuclear weapons = ICBM's ) List of ICBMs (most used ICBM's in the USA (=Minuteman 3)) LGM-30 Minuteman (1 Minuteman 3 ICBM containing 1 W62-warhead www.sipri.org/yearbook/2004/files/SIPRIYB0415A.pdf (each W62 warhead requiring 4,5 kg of Plutonium-239) http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf15.html (1 kg of Pu-239 equalling nearly 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity.) 1 Minuteman ICBM = 4,5 x 10 million Kwh = 45 million Kwh or 45 000 MWh 1 Minuteman ICBM contains the energy to put on 450 million 100 watt lightbulbs for 1 hour (1 100-watt light bulb consumes 0.1 kWh in an hour, see http://www.americanminisplits.com/whattheheckisakw.html) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States#Current_status The USA has 450 Minuteman ICBM's = roughly 450 warheads = 20 250 million Kwh or 20 250 000 Mwh 500 Minuteman ICBM's contain the energy to put on 225 000 million 100 watt lightbulbs for 1 hour or 9375 million 100-watt lightbulbs for 1 day
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