Workman
05-07-2009, 09:04 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design
I found this on wikipedia (I know not the best source, but this seems like too much of a coincidence). Look about one third of the way down the page under Fusion Boosted Fission Weapons. Guess what the first Fusion Boosted Fission Bomb was called? You guessed it! The Swan. Hmmmm....
Fusion-boosted fission weapons improve on the implosion design. The high temperature and pressure environment at the center of an exploding fission weapon compresses and heats a mixture of tritium and deuterium gas (heavy isotopes of hydrogen). The hydrogen fuses to form helium and free neutrons. The energy release from fusion reactions is relatively negligible, but each neutron starts a new fission chain reaction, greatly reducing the amount of fissile material that would otherwise be wasted. Boosting can more than double the weapon's fission energy release.
DOES THE COMBINATION OF THE HYDROGEN BOMBS ENERGY WITH THE ENERGY FROM THE ISLAND CREATE THIS FUSION BOOSTED FISSION WHERE THE RESULT IS AN IMPLOSION???
REMEMBER THAT THE BOMB WAS LEAKING WHEN FARADAY FOUND IT, SO IT MAY NOT HAVE THE FULL CAPACITY OF POWER THAT IT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE.
I found this on wikipedia (I know not the best source, but this seems like too much of a coincidence). Look about one third of the way down the page under Fusion Boosted Fission Weapons. Guess what the first Fusion Boosted Fission Bomb was called? You guessed it! The Swan. Hmmmm....
Fusion-boosted fission weapons improve on the implosion design. The high temperature and pressure environment at the center of an exploding fission weapon compresses and heats a mixture of tritium and deuterium gas (heavy isotopes of hydrogen). The hydrogen fuses to form helium and free neutrons. The energy release from fusion reactions is relatively negligible, but each neutron starts a new fission chain reaction, greatly reducing the amount of fissile material that would otherwise be wasted. Boosting can more than double the weapon's fission energy release.
DOES THE COMBINATION OF THE HYDROGEN BOMBS ENERGY WITH THE ENERGY FROM THE ISLAND CREATE THIS FUSION BOOSTED FISSION WHERE THE RESULT IS AN IMPLOSION???
REMEMBER THAT THE BOMB WAS LEAKING WHEN FARADAY FOUND IT, SO IT MAY NOT HAVE THE FULL CAPACITY OF POWER THAT IT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE.