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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Those are fission. Fusion bombs don’t fuse uranium. They use a fission bomb to fuse Lithium.

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  • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fusion bombs use a fission bomb to fuse Hydrogen, which is why they’re called H-bombs.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Look at all these nuclear scientists on Lemmy.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry I meant Lithium Deuteride.

      6Li2H

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean if we really want to be technically accurate here, the lithium is just a moderater for the hydrogen isotopes to fuse.

        But for me it gets fuzzy when looking at the reaction.

        LiD is 4 protons, 8 neutrons. Add a new neutron, and bam, you have 4 protons and 9 neutrons. But that’s where it gets weird to me. The lithium needs to decay or something into a tritium and dueterium which forces the tritium to fuse with the existing dueterium in the LiD molecule? Clearly the neutron has enough energy to transfer into one of the atoms to increase the chance of tunneling actually occuring.

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      • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For that matter, even the Nagasaki bomb (“Fat Man”) didn’t use Uranium at all - its fuel was Plutonium.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh, they do, but not as the primary or secondary. You can wrap depleated uranium around the core to capture fast neutrons that are leftover from the rest of the process. Changing the number of layers is how you can dial in a desired yield.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Damnit, you’re right and I’m wrong!

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s fissed, not fused.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I stand corrected, because I done forgetted.

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