Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
This thread is just too interesting... Mikolaj wrote:
This also depends on the type of bomb. In a two-stage fusion bomb, you are quite correct - the tritium-deuterium/tritium fusion reaction gives the boom. However, in a three-stage bomb, there is an additional fission reaction, this due to the fact that the neutrons produced by the fusion reaction have the precise energy required to fission U-238. Since U-238 is vastly easier to obtain than enriched U-235, there is no great problem with sticking in half a tonne of it. Around that you can add cobalt jackets, etc, for more interesting effects.
What does the cobalt jacket do? -- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP public key by finger
What does the cobalt jacket do?
Um. To tell you the truth, i can't precisely remember but i can narrow it down to one of two things. It's either the 'neutron bomb', in that it just starts throwing very energetic neutrons that will wipe out anything living, but not do property damage, or it's the polloution variant, which lets your boring old low-yield device poson the countryside for the next billion-odd years. I think it's the latter - but I'm not really certain. *shrug* sorry. Read some books on it - the amount of literature which should be classified but is freely available is mind-boggling. -- * * Mikolaj J. Habryn dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au * "I'm just another sniper on the information super-highway." PGP Public key available by finger * #include <standard-disclaimer.h>
participants (2)
-
Mikolaj Habryn -
shamrock＠netcom.com