How does the neutron initiator work?
It is also known as an internal neutron initiator. The initiator is typically placed in the center of the plutonium pit, and is activated by impact of the converging shock wave. To obtain a significant nuclear yield, sufficient neutrons must be present within the supercritical core at the right time.
How does an implosion bomb work?
Implosion works by initiating the detonation of the explosives on their outer surface, so that the detonation wave moves inward. Implosion can be used to compress either solid cores of fissionable material, or hollow cores in which the fissionable material forms a shell.
How does a neutron bomb work?
A neutron bomb is actually a small thermonuclear bomb in which a few kilograms of plutonium or uranium, ignited by a conventional explosive, would serve as a fission “trigger” to ignite a fusion explosion in a capsule containing several grams of deuterium-tritium.
What is a nuclear initiator?
Initiator: a source of neutrons that can be a pellet (made of a sandwich of polonium-210 and beryllium separated by a layer of gold foil) placed in the center of the core, or that can be a tubular device mounted on the outside of the bomb that shoots a burst of neutrons into the core at the moment of detonation.
What’s the temperature of a nuclear explosion?
about 100,000,000° Celsius
Initially, most of this energy goes into heating the bomb materials and the air in the vicinity of the blast. Temperatures of a nuclear explosion reach those in the interior of the sun, about 100,000,000° Celsius, and produce a brilliant fireball. The fireball shortly after detonation.
How is an implosion created?
Put simply, an implosion is the opposite of an explosion, matter and energy collapse inward and all implosions are caused by some form of pressure acting from the outside on an object. If that pressure is greater than the pressure within the object, without adequate support, the object will collapse.
What is an implosion type nuclear bomb?
In an implosion-type nuclear weapon design, a sphere of plutonium, uranium, or other fissile material is imploded by a spherical arrangement of explosive charges. In general, the use of radiation to implode something, as in a hydrogen bomb or in laser driven inertial confinement fusion, is known as radiation implosion.
What is the difference between a hydrogen bomb and a neutron bomb?
The neutron bomb is a small hydrogen bomb. The neutron bomb differs from standard nuclear weapons insofar as its primary lethal effects come from the radiation damage caused by the neutrons it emits. It is also known as an enhanced-radiation weapon (ERW).
Does the US still have a neutron bomb?
Although the United States has manufactured and stockpiled neutron bombs, in order to mollify public opposition in Europe it announced in 1981 that these weapons would not be deployed overseas at that time.
Who built the detonator for the atomic bomb?
| Fat Man | |
|---|---|
| Designer | Los Alamos Laboratory |
| Produced | 1945–1949 |
| No. built | 120 |
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