All fusion bombs have a fission core and most ( all, maybe ), certainly all those designed using the Teller-Ulam design, also have a uranium " sparkplug " which fissions too.
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Primary is the technical term for the fission bomb component of a thermonuclear or fusion bomb, which is used to start the reactions going and implode and detonate the second, fusion stage.
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Plus I have to wonder whether reactions in fusion reactors without uranium present really give all that much useful information about fusion bombs, and also, what does the EU get out of it?
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If a fusion bomb was placed in an undersea volcano, would it induce an eruption so massive that this volcano will spew out enough lava to permanently break the sea level and become an island?
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Yet reading that article, I'm surprised to see it sounds like in any fusion bomb, most of the energy comes from fissioning of plain old uranium, with fusion just forming a good source of neutrons.
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They allowed Londo Mollari to ascend the throne of Emperor and act as their unwilling agent through the use of a Keeper, and the threat of detonating hidden fusion bombs throughout the planet if he disobeyed them.
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Those who previously had doubted whether a fission-fusion bomb would be feasible at all were converted into believing that it was only a matter of time before both the USA and the USSR had developed multi-megaton weapons.
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This reaction is used in H-bombs to increase the yield of the fusion section by wrapping it in a layer of depleted uranium, which undergoes rapid fission when hit by the neutrons from the fusion bomb inside.
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In the mid-1970s, Project PACER, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ) explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small hydrogen bombs ( fusion bombs ) inside an underground cavity.
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Because U-238 is plentiful and has no critical mass, it can be added in ( in theory ) almost unlimited quantities as a tamper around a fusion bomb, helping to contain the fusion reaction and contributing its own fission energy.
